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"it ' Itteiiliii PUBLISHES FULL ASSOCIATED PRC8S:RCI0RT COVCRSTHC MORNING FICLO ON THC LOWER COLUMBIA VOLUME LXIII. NO. 286 ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1908 PRICE FIVE CENTS WILL REFUSE ALLIUM Strenuous Endeavor Made to Convict Ruef. ENDEAVOR FUR REVENGE All Other Cases Will be Drop ped and Ruef Case Pressed. CONVICTION A LIFE SENTENCE SchmlU' Attorney! W1U Mak AppUca tion for HU Release Today-Prosec tion Will Befui on Ground Tint bo Remittitur Has Been Returned. SAN FRANCISCO, Ja. lO.-That the prosecution of the bribery graft eases drill endeavor to ftsvengo upon rAb Ruef for a reversal by the appol hU eourt, of tlie conviction of fcbmlts on tlie charge of extortion nd nullify ing ell the extortion Indictment against fsebiults and Ruef, by the refusal of all Immunity to the former political bos nd by prosecuting him on enougn 01 the 100 odd indictment! returned againut liim to lnu sullWleiit conviction that will reult in practically lf eentence even thougn It found it necessary to drop nil other cue, wa the statement made to the AmocUUxI Press tomgni lv person closely Identified with Ruef. t itdv.lnnwl todiiv that counsel for Rebuilt and Ruef and the dUtrlct attor ney'i office disagree a to whether the iudirinent of the appellate court effective at once or not until 30 daya after the decision wa handed dovrn. difference la aa to whether RchmiU' $360,000 bail wa exonerated Then he waa convicted. If it la held by he court that it w not, Schralli will ily have to put up the additional bond Ifor bail upon the nine prlneflght case returned by the Oliver jury last month, It was atalcd tonight by one of 6chmltx' attorney that the application for hla release will be made tomorrow. Some of live membcra of the prosecu tion declared It will be refuacd on tha irround that no remittitur haa been turned by the appellate court and offic ially the trial court i not yet aware of the reversal. Should the remittitur be ant' down It was declared It would be attacked. It waa also reported that the prosecution wlir not ask the appellate court ifor ft hearing or an appeal to me uprome court. ,; J"j(, f',, ! HIT BY LEADING LADY. ' ' , SEATTLE, Jan. lO.-On the stage of the Moore theatre, just after tho curtain fell on' tho final act of "The Man of the Hour" Tuesday night and before the audience had time to leave the building, .HQs Ruby Bridges, leading woman, who In private life is Mrs. John II. Sale, wife of the manager of the play, and Miss Cecil Kern, Ingenue, in the aame organ! tatlon had to be parted by the actors. The encounter bad Its sequel in thepo lice court when Mies ..Bridge pleaded guilty to a oharge of assault and bat tery orn Mllss Kern and waa fined $28. Miss Ker says jealousy on the part of Iter rival caused the raw. She says the press agent have been giving her bet ter notices than to Miss Bridges and that this mado Miss Bridges thirst for re venge, ftf Bridges, however, tells a different story. .She says Miss Kern had een In the habit of standing In the Iwlng and "guying" her. When she had been provoked "beyond human endur- .1 1 . IIS i. HM " ah aava anil nm "wnnx Binv nnnnn "ttvv vp mj m - - j r would do just go out and punch her," 'And she did. Cecil Kern is a Portland girl, who has been on the stage a num ber of year. She J the daughter of Albrt E. hern, editor of the Deutsche Hung. DECISION REVERSED. "AV HtA.VCJ.SOO, Jan. 10.-Cptln John IWtnliigliam, supervising Inspector of bulla and boilers of this district, hu reversed the dmrfim of Inspectors Bolles and Bulger in the ease, of Warren V. hackett, whose engineer's license was re voUd after an Investigation, on the grounds of Incompetency. Early la Oc tolwr a fire broke out in the engine room of the steamer Mariposa of the Oceania Steamship Company and the steamer was In grave danger. For sear ly four days the Mariposa drifted in the ocean in a helpless condition. - An investigation of the fire was made by Inspectors Bolles and Bulger, and they announced they were sat li fled that Sackett was partly responsible for the Ore and that he had shown that he wan Inefficient. The inspector suspended his license for the remaining part of it terra to October 4, 1000. THOUSANDS PARADE, CHICAGO. Jan. 10. A despatch to the Tribune from Cincinnati, Ohio, says: A parade of thousand of unemployed marched to the City Hall yesterday, where a delegation held aconference with Mayor Markbreit and the city officials. It waa represented to the Mayor that die closing down of factories because of the monoy stringency had thrown thou sand of men out of work, and that suf fering waa wldpread. The spokesman requlsted aid and work. The Mayor in formed them that step had been taken to appropriate $20,000 for immediate re lief. Arrangement have been made for opening bread depost. soups houses and shelter places. CASE IS COMPLETED WWk L NOVEL SCHEME. SUFFRAGE Radical Resolution Before the Landtag. . SOCIALISTS DEMANDS Testimony Concluded In John R. Walsh Trial. ARGUMENTS TO BEGIN MONDAY Memorandum Notes Were Not on Record of Loan But Defendant Declared the Unsecured Loans Were Recorded as Personal Liabilities on His Fortune. CHICAGO, Jan. 10. With the condit ion this afternoon of the cross exami nation of John R. WaIsIi, the testimony in the long drawn-out case against the former bank president was practically completed. Argument on the evidence will begin Monday morning. Reaffirming and reiterating today, that liis first con- corn In all transactions between himself and his bank and hla various enter prises, had always been for the welfare of the Chicago National Bank, the aged witness camd throng! .the ordeal elf examination .without retracting a word of Ms initial declaration. , The admis sions ho made, are remembered by his prosecution as compromising, but he maintained to the last that the interests of the bank were protected to the best of his judgment. He admitted the memo randutn notes were not on the record of loan to person whose names appeared on the notes, but ho declared the unse cured loaus, which had been produced as evidence of bath faith, were recorded by him a personal liabilities for which bis private fortune and his estate would have been held. :. SAVED HIS NECK. . ' ""BOISE, Tdaho, Jan."" 10. Attorneys who defended Haywood and Pettlbone profess to have Information to the effect that Harry Orchard waa promised! a reward of some kind between the Hay wood and Pettlbone trials. After the Haywood trial, they assert, Orchard, In censed iMcause of the denunciation of him by Senator Borah in his closing address for the prosecution, said he would never be a witness again in any ease in which Borali appeared a an at torney. In order to secure his testimony against Pettlbone it is said the officials were forced to promise he would not be required to suffer the extreme penalty. Street Demonstration By Prus slans Kept in Bounds By Police. MANHOOD SUFFRAGE NOT GOOD Prince Von Buelow Declared Secret Vot ing Will Not be Permitted in Prussia Admin Suffrage System Require Reform. BERLIN, Jan. lO.-Tbe Socialists to day organised suffrage demonstrations before the building of the Prussian Laudtag iu which the radical resolution, demanding universal suffrage in Prus sian elections, was to come up for dis cussion. The street demonstration to day took Berlin by surprUe, Tbe police however were aware of the plans of the socialist and turned out in full force and prevented the demonstration reach ing anything like a dangerous stage. It 1 not believed that the demonstration today will have any political results whatever. It was wholly a socialist af fair, and while the socialist compose the most numerous party in the kingdom their influence over the government has been greatly diminished through the election reverses sustained a year ago, and the complete isolation of tbe party. Various speeches were made in the Landtag, but at the close of the session, Prince Von Buelow declared that man hood suffrage would not be good for the "tate and that secret voting would not le permitted In Prussia. He admitted the suffrage system required reform and that the government had been studying (he question for a long time. FAMOUS "BARKER." Truck Farmer Turn Manufacturer ' Cement Blocks. of CU'lCAGO, Jan. lO.-John Kelly of Bulflngton, i rid., once was a truck farm er, making a bare living. Sow he is an opulent manufacturer of cement blocks with a good Income and little outlay. Kelly's home Is two black from the cement works of the Illinois Steel Cam pany at Buffuigton, where a $3,000,000 plant grinds slag and converts it into Portland cement, Mien the winds blow off tbe lake cloud of cement laden dust envelop the Kelly tome and ihe Kelly truck farm. Tbe owner, in the hope of saving bis garden greens, recently, constructed, an Immense shield of the billboard type at the rear end of hla lot, facing the cement plant. When the cement dust come his ay it strikes hi fence and falls in a pile at the base of tbe shield. After that all that Kelly ha to do is to scoop up some gravel, mix it with the cement and mold the mass into blocks for which he And a ready market. HOUSE BUSY AGAIN. Material Progress Made on Bill to Codify Law. 1 WASHINGTON, Jan. lO.-Tbe ffouse of Representative today . resumed it activity and for over five hour tran sacted business of a public nature. Material progress -was made on the bill to codify, revlne and amend the criminal law of the United States, which was taken up after aome routine bills had been disposed of. A feature of the ses sion wa the brief addtvs by Burleson, of Texas, who credited Foraker and other "Republicans -with having charged the President with tbe responsibility for the recent financial panic PUR IMDE TAK THAW JURY COMPLETE Talesmen Selected to Try Slayer of White. - EXTENSIVE TOUR. DEFENDANT SATISFIED Intelligent Body of Men Most of Whom Are Middle Age and Over. PERSONNEL OF THE JURY Speaks on Causes of Recent Credit Panic. DANGEROUS TO COMMUNITY Member of Prominent Family and Star Spealer Dead. NEW YORK, JVin. ia-Once "barker" for Y. T. Barnum in the days of that showman' famous museum here, but more widely' known as the "welt well, well" man of the polo ground, Schuyler Van Nessfmenibcr of a promt nent fanilly,'with whose members, jbow- ever, he had little com mimica tion in the last quarter of a century, h dead jn the city mbrgiie, where his body wa taken after the fatal termination of an attack of nephritis at Bellevue Hospital i.His far-carrying cry from the bleacher had resounded during the progress of hun dred of baseball games in which the New York "Giants" participated," tho hearing of hi fame as a "rooter" having been reached, perhaps,, shortly after the Much." "Untutored Idealism" and "Callow Youth- fulness of Development" Not Good for Country at Large Refer to India soluble Ties That Bind Country. KINGSTON, N. Y, Jan. lO.-Before an assemblage of political associate of his home county, of Ulster, former Judge Parker, Democratic candidate for the Presidency in 1904, spoke tonight on the causes of the recent "Credit panic." Parker alluded to the indissoluble ties that bind the different parts of the country together, and declared the coun try could thank our President (for lhatj "Untutored Idealism,? and "Callow youthfuhiess of development," become dangerous wheu let loose on the .entire community, , ' i Parker declared nothing was wrong with our fluancial condition, we do not do business on an unsound financial basis and there is no fault with our mer cantile conditions and no danger threat ens our prosperity. Answering his own query, what caused the present ab normal conditions, Parker said: "From the simple fact there has been a determined - attack on i property Theatrical Company Will Make Journey of the World. , NEW YORK, Jan. lO.-One of the mot extensive tour ever attempted by a theatrical company Is now being plan ned by a party of American player. ' It i their intention to start In April on a journey around-the globe in the course of which they will visit nearly every civilized country of tbe world. The com pany will be under tlie direction of Marie A. Leuscher and will be composed of Daizie, the dancer; . Miss Josephine Cohan, Henry Lee, the character actor, Frederick Niblo, the humorist, and one otber artist who ha not been yefc selected. According to the present plan, the party will sail from San Francisco in April, stopping at Honolulu and then visiting Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, tbe Philippine. South Africa, Rusia, Turkey,' Italy, France, Germany, and England. ' as club removed to it then new! grounds at 150th street. Of late" years Van Noas had lost much of his old-time prestige, numerous Imitator of hi tactic Laving made them offensively monotonous. REACHES PERNAMBUCO. PBRNAMBUOO, Jan. lO.-The tor pedo boat flotilla arrived here today from Para. Seven day were consumed on ne trip, a aeiay oi two uay wa occasioned by the boilers of the Stewart becoming salted. Everybody i well. The flotilla leave here January 13 for Rio Janeiro. . v At the latter place a big program has been arranged for the entertainment of Admiral Evans' fleet, which 1 scheduled to arrive there about January 12, and leave January 21. : "Great fear pervade the land," he declared, "that none of us will be al lowed to retain the results of our toil but , that i in renewed exploitation of theories theorie financial, theorie gov- . eromentaV theories economic, we shall see the paralysation, of fortune. As to 'whom we must attribute this result, now and in the future to any man pos sessed of power who advocate violent experiment with existent adjustment of human relations." In conclusion he said if we asked how credit can be restored he could give but this negative answer: "Not by continuance of possibility of ap plication to the whole country of still other new theories, nor by the continu ance at will of our present ruler, nor of any like him, of sporadic spectacular attacks, one following another, upon various form of invested earnings." Mr. Thaw Well Pleased Prosecution Will Open Monday and Expect to Consume But a Few Hours Littleton Will Make Opening Statement. NEW YORK, Jan. lO-The second jury to try Harry Thaw waa completed late today and Monday the prosecution will present it direct case against the de fendant. Five juror in all were accept-. ed and sworn at tbe morning and after noon sessions held today. A a whole tbe jury i a most intelligent body of men, most of whom are of middle age and over. Wjben the panel had been finally completed, after many vexatious delays, and after the exercise of 23 per emptory challenges by the defense and 20 of the people. Thaw annonnced he wa entirely satisfied and in (fact was well pleased with the 12 men chosen. Young Mr. Thaw wa also well pleased. She eaid: 'They are much nicer than the men selected last year." , The jury a finally completed stands as follows: 1 Charles F. Gremmels, ship broker, foreman. . 2 Arthur R. Naething, employing baker. . ' 3 George W. Gary, dry goods. deorge C Rupprecht, salesman. 5 John II Holbert, mineral water. 6 David E. Arrowsmoth, manager. 7 William F. Doolittle. , auditor clerk. 8-WiIliain H. McHugh. clerk. 0 Frank J. Howell, manufacturer. 10 William Burck, assistant secre tary, ' . . .!',-' 11 Francis Dovale, real estate. 12 James A. Hooper, meat and pro visions. ; ' -y ''5-- . Assistant District Attorney ' Garvan will make the opening statement for the prosecution as he did in the first trial, He will not consume more than ten minutes and it is said the state's wit nesses will not occupy more than two hours. ; The defense will open Monday afternoon, Martin W. Littleton, Thaw's new chief counsel making the opening statement. - HOSPITAL SHIP IN COMMISSION. . WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. Announce ment wa made at the bureau of navi gation today that the hospital hip Re lief will be placed in commission at the Mare Island navy yard on February 1, a a naval auxiliary. It wa the involv ing the command of this ship that led to the cotroveray between President Roosevelt and Rear-Admiral Brownson, who later resigned as chief of the bureau of navigation. , OUT FOR BLOOD AGAIN, EMPALME, Sonora, Mexico Jan. 10. An American family of five memlwre and 10 Mexican were killed Tuesday by a band of Yaqui Indians, 40 mile from here. Soldier are now pursuing the murderers. TEN CENTS A YEAR. Working Girl Will Receive Medical Aid For Small Fee. , CHICAGO, Jan. io. By paying ten cent a yea A working girls who are members of trades union will receive medical consultations and advice. This has been made possible through the work of the Woman' Trade Union League, which yesterday announced the appointment of Dr. Rachel S. Yarros of Hull House, a it staff physician. Dr. Yarros will set aside portions ot three days a week for these consultation. Occupational diseases Of working girl will be given special attention. The nominal fee waa decided on as a special inducement for working girl to join the unions of their respective craft. It 1 not expected that the sum thus gained will be sufficient to compensate Dr. Yarro for her time, but tbe League 'ill make good the difference. TAFT IS ENDORSED Californians Go on Record for Secretary. ADDRESS LABOR -CAPITAL Greeted by Enthusiastic Audience ai "The Next President"-Provea Finally Effective in Attack and Defense For cible Replies Evoke Demonstration. SAN FRANCISCO. .Tan. lnA meeting of the executive committee of the league of Lincoln-Roosevelt Repub lican Club of California, held here to day, Secretary Taft waa endorsed for the Presidential nomination. vNEy YORK. Jan. 10. For the first time gince he became a recognized can didate for the Republican .Presidential nomination,' Secretary Taft faced a New York, audience and set forth in detail hi stand on the question of the relative interests and rights of labor and capital, and in turn submitted to a rapid fire at tack from the audience which puzaled him, keenly and in somewhat controver sial spirit, according to the practice of the peoples institute, whose guegt, he was. The Secretary proved e'auallv: ef- fective in attack and defense, and hi prompt and forcible replies and occa- sional witty sallka evoked the . earn demonstration and applause as greeted the salient points of hi address proper. Two thousand person, it capacity, had crowded the Cooper Union and the polios were lorced to turn about. 1000 more away. As the form of the Secretary made its way through the throng there was a shout of "Three cheers for tha next President," which iwas the signal of a noisy ovation, which lasted until the Sec retary had reached the platform and made hi customary bow. In a prepared address the Secretary pointed out the dependence one upon the other of capital and labor. He declared the great aggre gations of capital property employed ft widened field of labor and vers to be welcomed, while wealth Improperly used was to be condemned. He advocated unionism insofar as sympathy and re sultant co-operation be made for tha common good.