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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
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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.