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C0VCR8THC MORNING FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA
VOLUME LXItf. NO. 294
ASTORIA, OREGON. TUESCIY, JANUARY 21, 1908
PRICE FIVE CENTS
mi1 in
OVER AGAIN
Defendant's Attorney Re
sist the Order.
EXCLUDING THE PUBLIC
On Ground That District Attorney
- Jerome Has An Ulterior
Motive.
EVELYN'S STORY SHORTENED
Hotter and Wit of th Defendant
Still th Principal 1b th Great lif
Contest in New York Jerome' Cro
Examination Will be Seven One.
KEW YORK. Jan. 80. Mr. Evelyn
Thaw, repeated Iter story today. It
lacked the vitality of the Drat recital
but the audience listened intently.
Justice Dow ling refuted to close the
door. The throng clamored (or admit
ance and besieged the court houee ell
Jay.
Jerome, failing to exolude the public
retaliated in hi eross-exa'inlnstlon by
probing Into all the detail of the Orel
trie which the defense omitted on the
flint examination.
Jerome also (ought r to minimis
Evelyn' testimony entirely on the
ground that a oonveraation three J ear
before the tragedy had no bearing on
Thaw' mind on the night of the homl
elde. Dowllng overruled the objection.
Evelyn wa on the aland all day.
Jerome announced at the adjournment
that the cross-examination would oc
cupy 'all of tomorrow' session.
Jerome constantly interrupted her
story. He sought to exclude all de
tail, alleging Irrelevancy. Jerome' ob
jection led Justice Dowling to request
Littleton to make hi examination a
abort a pouible. Llttloton obeyed,
only to find that on cross-examination
Jerome indited upon reading from
lat year' record nearly every word the
witnea thon uttered. He did this under
the privilege of framing now question.
Littleton objected trenuouly declaring
,1.-1 1 . t II , - . 1 1
vuav uvrviiw, uj reaumg lorinur icaii-
mony, in a disagreeable manner, wa
trying to discredit her before the jury
because he could not discredit her in
ny way directly.
Jerome's tone characterized moat of
the questions put to the witness whom
lie attacked in the loudest voice yet
used at the trial He plunged Imme
diately Into minute detail and made no
aeucaie cnoics oi woros, ;,. jj i
Littleton' objection to the offensive-
ne and impropriety were frequently
sustained, Mr. Thaw matched both
Jerome and hi assistant, Mr. Garvan,
w it hi chief elbow with uggc
tions, She fenced a skilfully s she did
,i year .ago. At time she reflected the
;mood amv manner of Jerome; by ' an
swering in a strident voice, la m loud
- i . i i. 1 ' . ,, .
m aey as A own. Jerome s pi u less ag
gressive question often struck fire.
One when Jerome demanded to know if
lie told Thaw certain things, she re
torted "Ye, I told him, but I did not
use the language you are uiing."
i "Don't argue with me, madam,"
shouted Jerome. He then had the reply
stricken from the record. Only one
new feature appeared in lier testimony,
when she told about Thaw wallowing
laudanum with suMdal intent, at Monte
Carlo in 1904. Prevlou in New York,
he added, Thaw talked of suicide, and
suggested that shs also take "poison, a
both their lives had been ruined. She
humored Thaw at the time and diverted
hi mind. When shs left the room he
took the poison. ,
"Wy didnfc you tell us about this at
the first trial!' shouted Jerome.
"Mr, Delmas said it might make
Harry out too crasy," Evelyn retored
More Jerome could stop her.
.
TENNIS SEASON PROGRAM.
Soma Crest Player Coming to Contest
for Championship,
NJSVY YORK, v Jan. StO.-Tbat tbr
will be an American challenge this year
for the pwfght F. Davie eup was in
dlested yesterday by a member of the
National Lawn Tennl Association's
Executive Committee. . The Assochv
lion, however, U not likely, according
to Uil authority, to send represent-
tive to compete in the English Olympic
championship nutchea, Elimination con
test with he Doherty Brothers, who ar
exported her on their way to Australia
to play for the Daviea eup, ar out
lined as a probable part of the season'
tennl program. Two German player
may accompany the Dohertya and the
liability of prellmlary matches In this
country (with the winning nation to go
on to Australia for the final challenge
matches. Ptana to this end are expect
ed to bo presented end urged for adop
tlon at the Association' annual meet
ing next month.
BANK COMMISSIONERS SUED.
6 AN FRAXCISOO, Jan. SOHenry B.
Rue today began suit against the pres
ent and former state bank commission
ers to recover $10,374 deposited with the
California Safe Deposit ft Trust Com
pany on the strength of favorable re
ports regarding that Institution, Issued
by the commission. His faith In offic
ial report Impelled him to deposit
$10,000 two days before the bank
closed.
DYNAMITE DOINGS
Town of Hammond, Indiana, Has
Peculiar Mystery.
POLICE AND PEOPLE BAFFLED
Explosion Tears up On of the Finest
Blocks in City No Accounting for the
Perpetrator or Cause Miracle That no
One Wa Injured.
CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE
Is Out for a De Facto
, Port.
EFFECTIVE WORK DONE
The Necessity for Astoria
Provide Herself With a
Legal Status.
to
CHICAGO, "Jan. 20. A bomb explo
sion in the finest office building In town
yesterday startled and mystified the
police and inhabitants of Hammond,
Ind. . .
Hie' building Is called the Sidmon Mo
llis block and in It are the offices of the
Hammond Board of Trade near which
the explosion Is said to have occurred.
Reports as to this nature of the out
rage are conflicting. The police denied
that they had any clows or even, the
theories regarding the explosion.
A bomb filled with dynamite and at
tached to ' time fuse went off with a
tremendous report and everybody with
in a distance of several blocks felt the
shook. Dishes and window iwere rat
tled and the alarm wa general.
"Th explosion tons a hole in the
roof," sold one of the employe' in the
building." It was big enought for a
man to drop through. It is a miracle
no one was injured, as there were & num
ler of men in the building at the time,
The bomb- was placed directly over
the elovator shaft. The person who
placed it there had plenty of time to
escape, as the time fuse, to which the
bomb was connected, probably burned
for 10 minutes' before the explosion oc
curred." '- ' ' ' -s ' ;
Beside the Board of Trade, the build
ing ia occupied by the Lake County
Dally Time and numerous professional
men. It 1 owned by Sidmon McHie of
Chicago. ,
McHie owns, with his brother, R. H.
Minllie, of Hammond, a large grain ele
vator at Hammond.
HELD UP AND SERIOUSLY SHOT.
TAOOMA, Jan. 20. A. W. Thoroely,
the Mexican vice-consul, wa held up by
two highwaymen and shot. The ball
entered the throat and lodged near the
spinal cord. He fell to the ground and
was removed half an hour later to the
hospital where an operation is being
performed for the removal of the bullet.
NAMESSTANDING COMMITTEES
That Immediate Step Were Imperative
That a Charter Amendment be Sab
mitted for th Initiative of the
People of This City at Jan Election.
The Astoria Chamber of Commerce
went into session at 7:30 o'clock last
evening under Us new auspices for tie
year 1008, President W. T. Scbolfleld.
presiding, and Assistant Secretary J. T-
Wallace, acting as secretary in place of
manager and Secretary John H. Whyte,
absent In California, with the Ad Men'
excursion.
Ths meeting opened under the regular
order of business, and led off with the
report of Manager Whyte, compiled with
especial reference to this session, and
being a aerie of suggestions pertinent to)
the hour and the good of the work the
Chamber stands fori it included among
other things the following list of stand
Ing committees for the year, named by
the president, which were duly approved
by the membership last evening:
Executive Committee F. I Parker, G
C Futon, & S. Gordon.
Promotion CouimlUee Frank Patton,
F. J. Carney, Dr. T. L. Ball Herman
Wise, J. T. Ross, Xorri Staples, C. J.
Trenchard. , J. E. Gratke, James W.
Welch.
Committee on Commerce and Kaviga
tlon J. Q. A. Bowlby, C S. Gundercon.
R, . CarruUiers.
Committee on Manufacturing and In
dustries C G. Palmberg. R. E. Carruth
ers, R. M Leathers.
Railroad and Transportation Commit'
tee a W, Camahan, R. B. Dyer, J. T.
Wallace.
Legislative and Judiciary Committee
F. J. Taylor, G. C. Fulton, A. M. Smith.
Committee on Fisheries and Propoga
tlon A. Schernockau, C R. Higgina, H,
M. Lorntscn. v
. Committee on Statistics and Compila
tion A. R. Cyrus, Dr. T. L. Ball, B. Van
Dusen. " . 1
Committee on' Roads and Highways
F A. Fisher, O. W. Carnhan, P. A.
Stokes. ,'..'
Committee on Membership and Sub
scription a M. Cellar, H, Hoefler, Wm.
Mtodison, F, N. Clark, Wi. Gratke, V.
S. Stokes, T. R. Davies, Norris Staples,
Dan B. Allen. ' X
Committee on Agriculture and Dairy
Ing O. W. Barr, E. Z. Ferguson, A. S.
Skyles, William Larson and Geo. Judd.
. Reception Committee Herman Wise,
P. h. Chenry, Hon. G. W. Fulton, E. Z.
Ferguson, C. S. Bro.wn, Dr. T. L. Boll,
ft It Cellar, John ft McCue, Dr. W. C.
Logan, J. EL Higglns, John Fox, Dr. C.
W. Bnrr, John N. Griffin, H. F. Proel,
J. H. Smith, Charles Hollbora, Dr. Alfred
Kinney, VA. E. Tallant, Dr. A. A. Finch,
a J. Trenchard, U. J. Wherdty, R. H.
Hoefler, J. E. Gratke, J. S. Bellinger, J.
It-Whyte, J. T. Wallace, James W.
Ulelch, R. M. Pomeroy, C W. Oarnahan,
Dr. a B. Estes.
The full report was then referred to
the Committee on IPromotion for further
treatment as may be deemed best for
the future of the Chamber.
A R. Cyrus then mode a partial re
port on the matter of the desired use
of the Fort Stevens rifle-range, saying
that Colonel White, in command there,
has been seen, and had signified that
the range of 600 yards at the fort was
open to the use of any organised mili
tary or naval group that desired to use
It- for practice.
. Gabriel Wingate then sprung the sen
sation of ths evening in a quiet, but
convincing way, namely, the necessity
Tor Astoria to provide herself with legal
status and equipment a a port, in law;
ia ether words that immediate steps
wens Imperative that a charter amend
meut be submitted for the initiative of
the people of this city at the June elec
tion for the establishment of the Port
of Astoria, with all th adequate and
incident authority attaching to such an
organization and embracing every atom
of iter commercial rights in this river
and harbor. The idea took immensely
and while there, was no particular
"hurrah" about it, it was evident that
the suggestion was exactly in line with
popular conception of what wa essen
tial to mak the attitude and latitude
of the port fixed and definitive. A a
feature of this reception, the matter re
sulted in the appointment of a special
committee consisting of Messrs. Win-
gate, A. M. Smith and J. W. Welch, to
formulate a draft of the procedure neces
sary for the launching of the work in
good and sequent shape, at the next re
gular meeting of the Chamber; and this
will be done. It is hoped that th at
tendance on that night, Monday, the 3rd
day of Feburary, will be so great and so
unanimous on this live issue as to en
sure it early and complete presenta
tion to the people at large.
Dr. Bair then took occasion to mani
fest his exceeding interest in the expan
sion of the membership of the Chamber
to the round sum of 600; and a a con
sequence, be was immediately made
chairman of -a special committee to en
ter into a competitive effort with the
regular committee on Membership and
Subscription, for a sixty-day try-out in
this behalf, the losing committee to
stand for a dollar dinner to the losers.
The proposition went with a whirl, and
big results sre looked for.
. Mr. Wingate made an apt and per
suoslve talk for the establishment of
a flour mill here, if only of a capacity
of 100 barrels a day; and his suggestion
was promptly passed up to the commit'
tee on promotion for definite action in
the near future.
The president and secretary of the
Chamber were appointed a special com
mittee to revise the order of business of
the Chamber and have the same printed
and properly distributed among the
members, without delay.
Mr. Cyrus submitted a plea for ad'
vice from the Chamber as to what he
might tell an intending settler in this
country from abroad as to the possibili
ties warranting the establishment of a
slaughterhouse and sausage factory, and
the matter will be disposed of at the
next session.
The meeting waj a live one and will
bear fruit in the next few months of
an extremely valuable sort, especially in
the matter of creating the Port of As
toria by due process of law and popular
sanction; the which, it is hoped, may be
wrought out with good grace and certain
success.
LAI FRAUD
TESTIMONY
Zachary Acted as Advance
Agent;
SECURED LARGE AREAS
Suggested the Idea of Filing
on Homesteads and Erect
ing Their Cabins.
HOME COOKS CRITICISED,
One Season Why Ken are Disposed to
Strong Drink,
XEW'YORK, Jan. 20. That women
cook so badly that drive their husbands
to drink was the statement made yes
terday Supreme Court Justice Green
baum, in an- ddres at the Hebrew
technical School for Girls. After des
cribing the excellent work being done
by the school, the justice said:
In this country, the cooking ia far
from what it ought to be, particularly
in the country districts, where nature
has endowed the soil with all that
should make for ideal conditions as to
food. Yet, the average woman there
know nothing about oooldng. The
cooking is vile. Children are nourished
improperly. The wage earner, the bread
winner, does not receive proper food to
sustain him." I have no doubt that many
men go to saloons at night just because
they are improperly nurished at home."
ALMOSTCONCLUSIYEEVIDENCE
Prosecution Elicited Statement That
Government Blank Were Filled Be
fore They Signed Them -Extract of
Land Law Not Sead to Entrymen.
BANKER GAVE CUE.
Robbers Follow Sleepwallking President
Into Bank,
CHICAGO, Jan. 20. A despatch to
the Tribune from Jackson, Miss says:
A unique confession was made yes
terday to A. F. Thompson, president of
the National Bank of Hattiesburg, by
James Harper and W- T. Smith, bank
robbers, brought back from Seattle,
Washington, where they were caught
after a long chase.'
Harper says the bank president walked
in his sleep. He and Smith twiotched
the bank for several nights, according
to their confession,, and frequently
witnessed Thomason enter with the aid
of his door key. They never dreamed
that he was not in the full posession of
his senses until they saw him under an
electric light with hie eyes closed. Then
the robbers say they conceived a pkn
to enter the bank with Thomason and
to gag him if he came out of his
trance. K They declare that Thomason
gave them the combination to the safe,
which tJiey looted and that they left,
leaving Thomason asleep in the Dank,
PORTLAND, Jan. 2a With testi
mony that appeared almost conclusive
from several witnesses in the so-called
Hall-Mays conspiracy cose, the govern
ment 'disclosed to the jury how, during
the year 1900 and 1901 the Butte
Creek Land, livestock A Lumber Co.
secured large area of public land in a
manner the prosecution alleges was
fraudulent and illegal The prosecu
tion made wonderful progress today
with the deveopment ot its case. From
11 o'clock in the morning until the
court adjourned at 5 o'clock in the
evening five witnesses testified.
In brief, the testimony was to the
effect that Clarence B. Zachary, the fore
man of the company, served as a sort
of advance agent for the corporation in
its alleged land-grabbing. The witness
declared, knew where the land was lo
suggested the idea of filing on the
homesteads. They declared that he pro
posed to erect their cabins and look
after the cultivation and attend to nth
er requirements of the homestead law
and he agreed to purchase their claims
for about $300 when the final proof was
completed. , ,
They testified that these applies
tions were filed with H. H. Hendricks,
another member of the company, who
was at that time United States com
missioner. None of the entrymen, they
declared, knew where the lond was lo
cated when they filed their applications
and none of them ever visited their
claims more than two or three times
and then for periods of but 10 to 15
minutes each. When the proper time
arrived, the witnesses declared, each
appared before Hendricks, except one
who went before James S. Stewart at
the Dalles and signed the final proof
papers. When their final receipt ar
rived from the land office, they testi
fied, they transferred their property to
the company and received the stipulated
consideration.
Judge Webster for the defense cross-
examined the witnesses severely and
sought to bring out that they knew they
were perjuring themselves at all times
when the acts in question were commit
ted.' This caused the prosecution, in re
direct examination of" one of the wit
nesses, tp elicit the statement that an
swers hod already been filled into gov
ernment blanks before thy signed them,
and that the extracts from the land
laws contained on the blanks which axe
supposed to be read to each entryman
for his guidance and protection were
never read to them. ,
TEE INCIDENT IS CLOSED. '
WASBJXGTOJf, Jan. 20. On the
ground that it was sought to enjoin
Secretary Cortelyon from doing what
was now an accomplished fact and
sought to invoke the injunction power
of Cortelyou, Judge Gould today denied
George W Austen' application for am
order preventing the Secretary from al
lotting $2100.000 Panama bonds to
certain national banks. This practical'
ly ends the suit.
WARNED
Possible Attempt to Ciow up
Battleships.
OUT FOR BUSINESS.
REPORTED KILLED IN WRECK.
ATLANTA, Ga,, Jan. 20. Four per
sons are reported killed and a number
of others injured in a wreck on the
Atlanta-Birmingham & Atlantic Rail
road, near Shadna, Co., today. ,
CHICAGO, Jan. 20. Eleven newsboys
were arrested . last night for shouting
"War is declared between the United
States and Japan". The boys for hours
hod gone through the streets giving ut
terance to the Sensational yells, They
were selling a weekly newspaper and
meeting with a large sola until vioti
mized persons called up the police. The
boys were released after having been
warned.'
ONLY ONE NAME MENTIONED
L Few Have Treated the Story Ser
iously, Others Have Regarded it as
Fantastic and Many Have Dismissed
it a a Myth.
PARIS, Jan. 20. The reports from
Rio Janeiro that the Brazalian authori
ties were, warned from Paris of the
possible attempt to blow up the battle
ships is true. ;
Recently certain suspicions indicat
ing the existence of a plot to destroy a
part of or the whole fleet at Rio Janeiro
or in the Straits of Magellan were
aroused and communicated to Rio
Janeiro and Washington. A chartered
steamship was reported to have con
veyed explosives for the use of the con
spirators at Rio Janeiro arriving there
about the middle of December, and John
Fedher mentioned in the Rio Janeiro
dispatch was one of the men alleged to
be implicated in the conspiracy. The
plot is supposed to have startling rami
ificationa but the evidence is for from
conclusive, resting upon the statement
of an individual whose record is proved
to be bad. The whole affair is regarded
'with skepticism and the presumption is
that it may have been a deliberately
concocted scare. ; In any event, it is
not believed that if the polt existed,
the timely warning and precautions
frustrated the plans of the conspirator '
and compelled them to transfer opera
tions farther south if not to sbandon
them entirely. A few have treated the
story seriously, others have regarded it
as fantastio and many have dismissed
tt as a myth. Today reports from Rio
Janeiro have been characterized as an
other weird chapter of fantastic recital.
It is believed here that the action of the
Rio Janeiro police grew out of informa
tion forwarded to Rio Janerio from
Washington and Pari.
The administration has admitted
cognizance of knowledge of the belief
of ulterior designs at (Rio Janerio. The
warning received through ths ambajttj
at Paris was vague. The officers are
skeptical, pointing out that such a plot
could succeed only with the use of ap
proved apparatus operated by experts.
AGAIN THE STORK.
MADRID, Jan. 20. It Is semi-official-
ly announced that the Queen of Spain
is again en ciente. The accouchment is
expected in July.