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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1907)
EVIDENCE IS CONG L UDED Arguments Heard Today In Bradley Trial. 1 i DEFENDANT IS RELIEVED Government Experts Testify That the Defendant Shows no Insanity. PASTOR TELLS CONVERSATION Mrs, Bradley Told Kim Brown Would M.rrv H.r When Gun Wi PlCd Bforo Hi m Case WW go to the Jury . Monday Evening. , WASHINGTON, D. C, Nor. M.-Oh. 1 am to glJ it's all over at last," ex claimed Mr Bradley a si waa led lulling from tba wurt to ths prison va which waa to taka liar back to jail today. , ' Tb presentation ol the svUlenca bad just txM-tt concluded and court bad aa journed until tomorrow when tba argu ment will begin. Each akla will occupy four hour. TheM will ba completed Monday af tor noon and tha Judge mill at onn civ the chare to the Jury. lh - ' - - testimony of two government experts, Dm. Ilruh of Baltimore and JelltTa of New York, wi tha featura of today's proceeding, both of these declaring that nothing la the record of tha owe indi catus Mrs. Bradley is insane. uounci for tha defense attempted to Impeach their testimony by showing that they had txwn called by tha government and a a matter of fact they were teitlfy ing for the government. Each ropudi ted tbla charge. , , Dr. Utter, paator of the Inltarian Church of Denver who In the former tee tlmony haa been referred to a a prleat. lao testified. He waa Mrs, .Bradley's paator in 1005 and testified to the con versation with her lu which he declare aha told him Brown mould marry her when a gun waa placed before hi in, but tha paator atated he did not understand that alio proposed to shoot him. He rattier thought someone else would be found to undertake to force him to marry her. Mrs. Bradley was recalled and atated she had no recollection of auoh a conversation. Utter sat by her most of the day and appear to sympa thise with her In her trouble. an Institution of her creation, and every merchant of Importance In tha celestial quartsr waa heavily interested. The amount missing Is not less than $30,000 and may reach 150,000. Chan Chow Yut, beautiful woman of her race, came bens about Ova years ago as tha iwlfe of Kill Ual, a cook. She ingratiated her self and orlgnated a scheme whereby she collected Urge sums from leading Chines women and loaned It at heavy interest, accumulating rapidly. Recent ly tha merchants who put their money In found they were getting no returns, and an investigation disclosed that the fund and its cunning manipulator were gone. Much valuable gold ami pearl Jewelry, on which she mad trifling loans, Is also missing. STOLE RIDE; LOSES LIFE. RKDDINO. CaL Kov. 20Alfred A. Miller, of Seattle, Wash., la tha name and address of tba man found murdered last Sunday lu the outskirts of Redding. Ilia identification waa made in Red Bluff from pictures aent out by the sheriff. Miller left Red Bluff November 8. He bad $1200 in drafts drawn on a San Francisco tank by a Seattle bank. He could not get them cashed la Red Bluff and tried San Francisco, but to no pur pose. Ha then decided to go back to Seattle to get tba drafts cashed at the bank of issue. Although he had $300 In cash he tried to beat bla way. COVE WITH HO LEAVES. EMBEZZLED FUNDS. Chancellor of German Legation Under Arrest. "" NEW YORK. Nov, 20.A special dis patch to the Herald from Havana Cuba, eayai . p v"( ... r .. Felix Daehne, chancellor of the Ger man legation, who acted several times as charge d'affaires during the minister's absence, was arrested last night by a detective at tho ofltoe of the legation following a request from the German minister to the state department, i Daehne la closely watched at police headquarters, for tula morning ha at tempted to commit aulolde, which was prevented by tha timely Interference of a detective. . The charge against Daehne la the al leged embeczlement of more than $1000 of the f unda of the legation. He will be aent to Germany for trial, the alleged crime having been committed within the German legation. ORIENTAL CASSHt, LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nor. 29-Ohan Chowi Yut, an Oriental Oassie Chodwiok and queen of finance, has dlsappeaaed from Chinatown with H the funds of the Chinese women's deposit syndicate, Ministers Believe That Nude in Art is Wrong. NEW YORK, Nov. Aocordlng to apeoial dlnpatcb to tha World from Trenton, N. J, the people of that town have become suddenly stricken with the idea that there is something wrong' In the nude in art. As s result toe visitors yesterday, to the statuary rooms in the Industrial School of Art found each of the Ume and smoke blackened casts adorned with a fresh, glaring white fig leaf. Many ridiculed the idea but the directors of the institution replied, that they were only carrying out the wishes of the ministers and Sunday achool workers of the city and that time would discolor the additions to the statues so that they would not appear so conspic uous as tbey did yesterday. SPECIAL SESSION Governor Being Urged Call Legislature. to BUSINESS IS HINDERED Amendment to Attachment Law Is Desired Before Holi days End. LEGISLATORS ARE DIVIDED Business Ken and Merchants Art in Favor of Extra Session But Bankers Have Not Made Request OreganiM tlon of Legislature Same as Laat One. DEFENDS HIS COURSE Foraker Explains Relation to Passage of Rate Bill. WILL CONTEST DELEGATION Ohio Senator Doesn't Propose to Let Taft Have a Walk-Over Believes Rail roads Should Not be Hampered at This Time by Unnecessary Legislation. WASHINGTON. Nov. 29. -Senator Forakor made it clearly known today that he will contest the Ohio delegation to the Republican ' national convention with Taft. The decision is contained in a letter to Conrad J. Matter, vice president of the Ohio Republican league who forwarded to Foraker a copy of the resolutions adopted by the advisory and executive committee of the league endorsing Foraker for the senatorship and for Presidential nomination. For aker defends his course in relation to the passage of the railroad rate bill and in sists the necessity of the railroads of the country to spend millions of dollars annually in increasing their facilities makes thia a bad' time to hamper the roads In any unnecessary way by legis lation. Foraker aaya he is gratified ai the endorsement of the committee at this time because it Is a flat rebuke to the suggestion that the office of United States Senator la to be stripped of all real honor attached to It by making its incumbent mere agent to register the decree of somebody else. PORTLAND, Nov. 29. One more week of holidays will be proclaimed by Gover nor Chamberlain tomorrow for the fur ther protection of banking and bualness Interest from the evils of the existing unsettled condition of the country. Dur ing this week the governor will do some tall thinking in an effort to solve the problems of the future in order to deter mine whether or not he will continue he special proclamations, and if so for how long. ; Over tb s.ate the holiday plan as a protective remedy la meeting with favor, but business men generally are deplor ing the necessity of keeping the strings or so tigntiy. Because oi wie various drawbacks and hindrances to the plan many people are continually urging Gov ernor Chamberlain to think out some other remedy that will be effective in protecting business men and bankers and the people generally. A special session of the legislature for the amendment of the attachment law and for the amend ment of the statute governing special and legal holidays is being urged and is being considered by the governor. The Oregon law governing attachments in civil actions la one that is wide open. By it any one who is a creditor can sue out an attachment, no matter what the conditions. , An example of one way in which trouble may result without the amend ment to the attachment law follows: A business house gave its order for holi day goods last spring ordered merchan dise to the amount of $100,000. The banks promised to advance the money to the concern on delivery of the goods. With the goods delivered and the banks unable to keep their agreement, neither can the business houe, and the eastern establishment can, under the present law, attach the local house. This it an instance which can be repeated many times over in Portland a well a the mall cities and concerns which face such a situation are anxious to protect themselves from rapacious creditors. Washington has an attachment, law which protect the merchants, a law olmllar to that desired passed by a special session. Because of having such a statute and being fret from the ap prehension of attachment and foreclos ure, the legal holidays are not needed in Washington. " " ."' Added to the requeste Of the merchants are those of the lawyers, who want to see the courts open. Not a solitary banker has suggested a special session to the governor. '" Opinion among members of the Legis' luture is divided on the subject. A large number are in favor of the special ses sion, while other contend that a ses sion ia a luxury. These latter are not convinced of the necessity of amending the attachment law, contending that there is no danger of foreclosure. If the governor decides to call a special session ha will get the members together ae soon as possible after making up Us mind. Thia will require but a few days. Should the session be called, the old organization of laat winter will still be in force. Frank Davey will be Speaker of the House and Senator Haines will lie President of the Senate. ENJOINS COMMISSION. Washington Not Allowed to Enforce Joint Wheat Order. SEATTLE, Nov. 29.-Judge Hanford in the federal court today enjoined the Washington state railroad commission from (enforcing hat is 'known aa the ''Joint wheat order" which requires the Oregon Railroad A Navigation Co. Northern Pacific and Great Northern to operate their roads as connecting lines in hauling wheat from all leading places in the state. The court holds the order was made to divert wheat from the territory tributary to Portland lying along the O. R. & N. to Puget Sound. The court hell thia encroaches on the power to regulate interstate' commerce. BADLY WRECKED. Norwegian Steamer Will be Repaired in Hawaii. HONOLULU, Nov. 29.-Via San Fran cisco Nov. 29. A board of survey has been appointed here for the Norwegian steamer Admiral Borresou, which was badly wrecked by a tidal wave on No vember 2,"and came tq this port in dis tress, by the representatives of Lloyds, and a survey is now being made. It will be necessary to discharge the deck load. The owners In Bergen, Norway, have cabled to make such repairs here as will 'enable the steamer to proceed with her cargo to Taku. These repairs, it is thought, Will cost at least $10,000. )mWar curb yti PLAN MEETS Hiffl FAVOR Central Issue Bank Has Many Supporters. SUBSCRIPTIONS CLOSED FAINTED AT FEAST. Secretary Announces Final Clos ing of Allotment of Bonds. Starving Man Looks at Family Dining Then Fainta, NEW YORK, Nov. 29. Weak, emaciated, half starved, a ragged tat tered man crept np to the window of a residence on Long Island laat night and after gazing for a moment into the win' dow, fell in a swoon to the floor. As hour later a policeman founi him and discovering that he waa ill, sent him to a hospital. There he waa found to ba starving. He recovered sufficiently to tell the surgeon that his name waa Louie Fink, and that he bad not eaten fo three days. He was a longshoreman, he said, and left hi job when a strike wae declared six months ago. ' Sine then he had not averaged four menbj a week and for three day he bad not eaten a morsel "When I looked is at the window," ha said, "and saw a family at their Thanksgiving dinner, I must hav fainted." The doctor say that Fink'e ease 1 serious, but be may recover. OFFERS FOR CANAL BONDS Amount Bid For Thought to Greatly Exceed Issue Chicago Banks Con trarv to Reoort Not Yet Ready to 0 Resume Currency Payments. WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 29.-Sec-retary Cortelyou definitely announced the final closing of allotments of the 3 per cent one-year certificates today. He declared no allotments had been made or would be made after bis announcement and no further subacriptona would be considered. Information is still withheld as to the amount of allotments to be made but such information as is ob tainable indicates that the total will not materially exceed f25.000.000. Offers for Panama canal bonds are still reaching the Treasury in large numbers. They will remain unonened until tomorrow! when the receipt of subscription close. The number of bids closed approximates the number received for the loan of July, 1906, when the offer of 130.000.000 of bond was subscribed, to the amount of $446,000,000, or about 15 times the amount offered. Nothing is known yet as to the amount of the bids. It is hard ly expected the premium obtained in 1906, which was $104.03, will be obtained but the expected offer will be of good price. The secretary continue to listen attentively to representations as to cur rency legislation but doe not commit himself. The project of a central bank of issue seems to have many aupporters among bankers and members of Congress arriving here and it i certain several bills on the subject will be introduced. The report is received here Way that the Chicago bank will resume currency payments next Monday. In connection with this the Secretary stated that banks in nearly all the large centers are grnd uallv increasing cash payments and getting back to a cash basis. ,, "'",.. v, . Later. . CHICAGO, Nov, 29 iPresident Mitchell of the Illinois Trust & Savings Bank and a member of the Chicago Clearing House Committee said tonight that the announcement that' banks would resume payment on a currency basis Monday, is a bit premature. He says no formal date has . been set v for the resumption of specie payments. From other sources it was learned the clearing-house has start' ed arrangements for the return to nor mill conditions in about ten day. REFUSED LANDING. OTTAWA, Can, Japanese Consul General Nosse, ha complained to the Immigration Department that ft asm ber of Japanese holding passport were not allowed to land at Victoria. It ha hitherto been the practice to allow dis eased immigrants to land at Victoria for treatment but this privilege haa been abused and the Dominion govern ment had decided to put a atop to the practice. . , . , r t" POSTPONES ACTION. naoeaa uvipus wm in aviemscamiai Case Taken Under Advisement OAKLAND, CaL," Nov. 29. After hearing argument in the Harry Klein schmidt case today Judge Harris took the application under advisement until Tuesday. The grand jury will convene Monday when the District Attorney be lieves an indictment for the murder of Frank Bellows will be returned against Kkinschmidt. It was for this reason that Judge Harris postponed actios un til Tuesday, a the returning of an in dictment . will render unnecessary any further action on the habeas corpus matter. - PRESENCE OF MIND. Mr. Financial Situation "My nerves are more or less sht to pieces, and my legs are a bit shaky, doctor. I hop." your gold cure may help me." v The recent importations of gold are expected to relieve the financial situa tion, News Item, Small Boy Loses Foot But Saves His NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-With hi foot caught in a switch frog in the tracks of the Long Island Railroad at Winfield. L. I., yesterday, George Neuberger, an eight-year-old boy, had presence of mind enough to lean as far off the tracks as his imprisoned foot would allow when a train thundered down on him. His foot was completely severed but he was oth erwise uninjured. The hospital surgeons say he will undoubtedly recover. ' DENIES REPORT. . " SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 29.-iW. H. Bancroft denies he is to resign as vice president and general manager of the Oregon Short Line. . i OFFICIAL POISONED He Had Daily Fears of Being Killed. WITNESS AGAINST MEXICANS Secret Service Officer Who Came to Testify Against Revolutionists is Given Poison But Prompt Medical Re lief Saves His Life Has Bodyguard. . LOS ANGELES, Nov. 29. Said to be in daily fear of being killed since his arrival here Monday Trinidad Vasquez, a secret service official in the employ of Mexico, and chief witness against Ma- goon, , Villareal T and Rivera, alleged Mexican revolutionists, waa poisoned at noon today. . He recovered. Vasquea was chatting with Detective Furlong, who has been acting as body guard to Vasquea, when suddenly he threw up hi hands and fell in front of the Central police station. He was taken to the receiving hospital where it was found he had been poisoned. The surgeons had no yet determined with what, but it iff believed the poison was fed him at the midday meal. ' KILLED HIGHBINDER. OAKLAND, Cal, Nov. 29. Wong Leong, the Hip Sing Tong highbinder, who was shot nine times in ft pistol battle with the police last night, died this morning. There has been so re sumption of the tong war since last night's battle. The police have not been able to find any trace of the four wMta gun fighters who took part in the. fight.