VOLUME LXW. NO, 298
ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25. 1908
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ADRIATIC
IS
DELAYED
Thaw Witnesses Not
Here.
Yet
ANOTHER WITNESS LATE
So Far no Experts Have Ap
peared in Court for the
Prosecution.
TRIAL CONTINUED TO MONDAY
I Don't Intend Ha Shall Know My
Case Befort It Ii Presented in
Court," Said Littleton When Jer
ome Asked for Witnesses' Namea.
NEW YORK, Jan. 24.The actions
and menial and )hyical condition of
Harry K. Thaw at various timei when
he wa in Europe will be detailed by
physicians who have been brought
across the Atlantic for the purpose
in the trial of Thaw for the killing
of Stanford White. It wai hoped
that the Adriatic, on which these wit
ncsses are to come from Europe
would reach port yesterday, but be
fore court adjourned yesterday it was
reported that she would not reach her
dock until 10o'clock this morning.
These witnesses are expected to add
to the mass of testimony which the
defense has introduced in its attempt
to prove that Thaw was for years ir
rational, and by which they hope to
show that when Thaw fired the shot
which caused the death of Stanford
White, that he was mentally unsound
and therefore not guilty of murder
under the stntule which excuses the
acts of those who, because of their
mental condition do not appreciate
the nature or quality of the act, or
that the act Is wrong.
Two alienists have already given
their direct testimony for the defense
and under the ruling of the court,
based on an agreement between the
attorneys, only one more can be
called. The hypothetical question
based on all of the evidence of the
trial, will be put to these witnesses
and then the prosecution will have an
opportunity for cross-examination
Mow long ths will take is not known
Last year ono of the defense' alien
.iftts, Dr. Britton D. Evans, was on
the stand for two days and underwent
a erillinir cross-examination at the
hands of the district attorney,
So far no experts for the prosecu
tion have appeared in the courtroom,
and Mr. Jerome has not indicated
whether or not he will call any. All
of the alienists who testified for the
prosecution at the last trial have been
subpoenaed as regular witnesses for
the defense, and may be called upon
to repeat their statements made last
year before the lunacy ; commission
in case the prosecution seeks to com
bat the insanity defense now put for
ward on behalf of Thaw. Last year
a)l of these experts testified that they
believed Thaw to be suffering from
paranoia, but while they were con
vinced that he was medically insane
they did not believe that his mental
derangement was such as to come
under the definition of legal Insanity
laid down in the statute,
the dock on account of the storm
They will testify that when Tha
shot White he was so mentally defic
lent that he did not know the nature
or quality of his act or that the act
was wrong. The court adjourned tin
til Monday when Littleton will have
ready hi long hypothetical question,
after a few more witnesses of the fact
have testified, an unfesi Jerome'i
cross-examination of the experts
unexpectedly long, the defense wi
rest its case Monday, .With rebuttal
and sur-rebuttal to come it is expect
ed the case will end by Friday or
Saturday.
DRY FARMING CONGRESS.
SALT LAKE, Jan. 24. -The ques
tion of a meeting place for the next
trans-Missouri Dry Farming Coa
grest will be answered by the execu
live committee. Douglas, Cheyenne,
and Idaho Falls are after it. Cover
nor Brooks, of Wyoming, today ad
vised the Congress of hit acceptance
of the presidency. Fisher Harris, the
retiring president Is the choice of the
executive committee for the position
of permanent secretary.
TO BREAK THE WILL
'
NEW YORK, Jan. 24.-A blinding
snowstorm, which swept New York
today, was the first serious Interrup
tion the second Thaw trial has had
in that it prevented the appearance in
court of the four physicians, and
a nurse. Passengers from Europe on
-the liner Adriatic are unable to reach
Heirs of Mrs. Bradley Charge
-Under Influence.
LEFT THREE MILLION DOLLARS
Fifty or Sixty Heirs, Nephews and
Nieces, Left a Total of Five Thou
sand Dollars Balance Goes to the
Bradley Polytechnic ..,
CHICAGO, Jan. 24. A dispatch to
the Record-Herald from Fcoria, III
says: ' . .
The will of the late Mrs, Lydia
Bradley was filed from probate yes
terday, disposing of her estate, valued
at $3,000,000. By the terms of the
will the entire property goes to the
support of the Bradley Polytechnic,
which she established. The property
at its present valuation will yield the
institute $60,000 a year. Mrs. Brad
ley bequeathed a total of $5,000 to
SO or 60 heirs, children of her broth
m and sisters, who will institute suit
to annul the will, charging undue in
fluence was exerted to induce . Mrs.
Bradley practically to cut them off.
In the will proper Mrs. Bradley left
$50,000 to these heirs, but in a codicil
reduced the sum to $5,000.
NEVADA LEGISLATURE.
CARSON, Jan. 24. Immediately
following the adjournment of the as
scniniy una aitcrnoon a caucus was
held on the floor in which a number
of members, both for and against the
police bill, participated. It was de
cided that all members' of the lower
house demand the mine owners to
abolish the card system in Goldfield
and that before the police measure
would be considered that body must
be assured that the card system had
been abolished,
BIOLOGISTS DISAGREE.
BERKELEY, Cal., Jan. 24.-A war
of world-famous biologists who are
searching for the germ of life was
started yesterday when Prof. Jacques
Loeb issued a bulletin in which he
threw down the gauntlet to Overton
and Hoeber, two English scientists
of the University of Cambridge, in a
dispute over the permeability of cells
by salts and irons and water. While
the language of Loeb's bulletin is
technical, he defends his theory of the
creation of life, by the entrance of
salts or irons into the cell, which his
English confreres, Overton and Hoe-
ber, ore trying to batter down by an
array of data that they have collected.
UNEMPLOYED
in cno
COLLIERS RETURN.
Estimated From Forty to
Sixty Thousand. .
RELIEF FUND RAISED
Meeting of Twenty-Four Proml
nent Men Raised Several
Thousand Dollars.
PLAN TO RAISE $100,000
Practically Every Industry in the
City Was Represented, as WeU as
Clubs, .Commercial .Organisations
and Charitable Institutions.
CHICACO, Jan. 24.-Plans to raise
fund of $100,030 for the relief of the
unemployed in Chicago were made at
meeting of 24 of the most promi
nent men of the city yetterday.
Practically every industry in the
city was represented, as well 13 the
large clubs, commercial organizations
t, nd charitaVt associations. Before
ih. turning adjeurned several thou
sand doft s was pJedg4 so work of
organization will be taken up at once.
DavM K. ,p in. 'president ;f tv
Chicago Association of Commerce,
called the meeting and is temporary
chairman of the genera! committee.
All the money secured will be dis
pensed through existing charitable organizations.
The f;rakcrs who ?; peared before
Hi' cru.miitu'f csi-muie the number of
unemployed in Chicago are between
40,000 and 60,000.
RIO JANEIRO, Jan. 24,-The sup
ply ship Arcthusa, which has been in
attendance on the "torpedo boat flo
tilla until the floatilla's departure on
Tuesday, left last night for Buenos
Ayres. The colliers Nero and Brutus
will leave here on Sunday for New
York, The Italian cruiser Ruglia,
also left here, bound for the Pacific
touching at Montevideo.
ALLEGED FORGER ARRESTED.
LOS ANGELES, Jan., 24. -C. R.
Lawson was arrested here last night
and the police charge that he is
wanted in a dozen cities of the United
States on charges of forgery. Among
the institutions said to have been vie
Utilized are banks in St. Louis, Jef
ferson City, Mo., Little Rock, Ark.,
aijd Dallas, Texas.
RECEIVER APPOINTED.
ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 24.-Recciv-ers
were appointed yesterday for the
Ware-Hatcher Furniture Company,
which operates a number of factories
in this city. The company, according
to President Ware, owes $450,000
with assets placed at $900,000.
EMOR MOTION
Naval Budget Too Large for
the Duma.
CABINET OPPOSES PROGRAM
HDSni
A PRISONER
Arrested Near Jackson
ville Florida.
WAS CRUISING IN YACHT
Pinkerton Detectives Trace His
Every Movement and Finally
Overtake Him.
HE CONFESSES THE FORGERY
He Will be Prosecuted in Chicago
Where the Draft Was Cashed
Probably May Plead Guilty and
Take His Punishment
Count Avaroff Says his Party Has
Been Given to Understand That the
Duma Wll be Dissolved if the Ap
propriation is Rejected.
TRUST AFTER SENATOR.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. -The
Senate spent over an hour today dis
cussing the - resolution ot Hans
borough of North Dakota, directing
the Department of Commerce and
Labor to suspend its investigation
into the affairs of the National Har
vester Company which was ordered
by a resolution more than a year ago.
During this discussion Hansborough
Jeclared that the harvester trust is
attempting to control the selection of
delegates to the National Republican
Convention and is especially plotting
to defeat him, for re-election to the
Senate. The resolution was finally
referred to a committee.
COMMITTEE APPOINTED.
ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 24.-Th
conflict between the emperor and the
Duma over the naval progress which
entails an expenditure of $500,000,000
is steadily developing in a direction
unfavorable to the rtalization of,, the
emperor's ambition. The scheme,
which M. Kokovotf, the minister
of finance,, paivately .declared spelled
ruin to Russian finances has met op
position in unexpected quarters. At
a meeting held last week of the coun
cil of imperial defense, under the pre
sidency of Grand Duke Nicholas
Nicholasievitch, representatives of
the army operated a regular campaign
against the program." The grand
duke hmself declared that in his opin
ion the navy was in an anarchistic and
a hotbed of mutinies, unworthy to be
entrusted with such enormous sums
for new construction.
The cabinet, which almost unani
mously opposes the naval programme,
has privately passed the hint among
the conservatives in . the Duma, en
against the programme in order to
influence the emperor, whose mind
htherto has appeared to be set in its
fulfillment.
A brother of Premier Stolypin, in
an article in the Novoe Vremya, bit
terly arraigns the lethargy of the ad
miral and declares that $40,000,000
NEW YORK, Jan. 24. The credi
tors of E. R. Thomas, O. H. Thomas
and Robert Maclay & Company have
appointed Miles O'Brien and Henry
C. Ide, a committee to liquidate the 1 now included in the yearly budget of
the navy is thrown to waste. It
would be much better, he says, to
abolish the fleet altogether, devoting
this sum to other uses. He accuses
the admralty of putting . forward a
programme involving great expendi
tures without possessing the vaguest
idea of up-to-date naval design and
construction technique.
The emperor is preparing a dis
course in favor of the programme
which he, will deliver before an au
dience of Octoberists early in Feb
ruary. Count Avaroff, one of the Oo
toberist leaders, in an ipterview says
that his party ha sbeen given to under
stand that the Duma will be dissolved
if the programme is rejected; never
theless he believes that a majority of
the Octoberists are determined to
vte against th government.
various debts , of , the above-named
parties, Another name is to be add
ed later to the committee, ,
HOMELESS OF NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Jan. 24-the char
ity organization society reports issued
yesterday following an investigation
of the unemployed stated that at least
35,000 homeless men are now in this
city. if ' ' -..
DYNAMITE BOMBS.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 24.
Dynamite bombs were exploded to
night at Girard, Ala., in front of the
residences of the president of the law
and order league and two Cirard min
isters. ; , ,
CHICAGO, Jan. 24.-Word was re
ceived here today by the Pinkerton
Detective Agency of the arrest by
one of their men near Jacksonville,
Fla., of Turie Nordstrom, wanted in
Chicago for the passing of a forged
check for $15,000 on the First Na
tional Bank, of this city. Nordstrom
was a bank clerk in Astoria, Or., and
coming here with a draft for $3 from
the First National Bank of Astoria,
raised the draft to $15,000 ,and ob
tained part of this sum in cash from
the First National Bank of Chicago
and the remainder in drafts, he con
verted them into London drafts and
a letter of credit at the National
Bank of the Republic of this city.
He was arrested while cruising on
a small yacht that he had purchased
at Brunswick, Fla. He has admitted
his identity and confessed to the for
gery. An officer will be sent today to
bring him to Chicago for prosecution.
He left his home in Astoria with
the avowed intention of going to
Portland On the streets of that city
he met the cashier of his bank one
evening and informed him that he
would not return to Astoria until
Monday. On Monday he wrote the
bank that he had been called to
Pendleton and would not return for
several days. In that way he reached
Chicago before suspicion was aroused.
On his arrival in Chicago he had
little difficulty in obtaining money,
although is was during the -worst
period of the stringency. He took,
in return for the $15,000 draft, $2500
in cash, and for the balance purchas
ed drafts on San Francisco, London
and a Norwegian bank.
A strange teature ot the case is
the fact that one of the drafts he or
dered made out in favor of his wife's
sister ill Norway. He had never seen
his sister-in-law and his motive for
sending her money is unknowa
From Chicago he went direct to
San Francisco. Pinkerton men traced
him to that place and back to Ogden,
Utah. From Ogden he went to Salt
Lake City, and from there direct to
New York. From New York he went
south, and at Brunswick, Ga., had one
of his drafts cashed. At that place
he purchased a yacht and traveled
leisurely down the coast towards
Florida. . '
The Pinkerton office in Cincinnati,
O., received notice of his cruise, and
detective was sent after him imme
diately. He had little difficulty in lo
cating the forger.
LAWYER HAMILL ILL.
CHICAGO, Jan. 24,-Samuel R.
Hamill, the Tcrre Haute, Ind., lawyer
whose defense of John R. Walsh was
enlivened by an encounter with Mrs.
Beatrice Thomas Metcalf and her re
volver, is seriously ill in Chicago. His
condition yesterday was so grave that
bis family physician, T. A. Tunkard,
hurried from Terre Haute to his bed
side Mr. Hamill is sad to be suffer
ing from grip.
ENGINEERS' CONVENTION.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas., Jan. 24,
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers will hold its annual conven
tion at San Antonio on Janaury 29,
30 and 31. It is probable that sev
eral thousand delegates from more
than 700 lodges in various parts of
the country will be in attendance. The
ladies' auxiliary organization wijl
also attend the convention.
M. FILOSSOFOFF'- SUCCESSOR.
LONDON, Jan. 24. A despatch to
a news agency from St Petersburg
says that Ivan Shipoff, former min
ister of finance, has been appointed to
succeed the late M. Filossofoff as
minister of commerce.
A God-Send to the Thousands
of Un-Employed.
BREAD LINE LENGTHENED
Storm Sweeping Atlantic Coast Sea
bright Streets Flooded Great Dam
age to Cottages and Pavilions
Lower Coast Also Visited by Storm
NEW YORK, Jan. 24.-New York
tonight is digging itself out of a foot
of snow which is so unevenly divided
that while the exposed and unfre
quented spots have been blown bare,
the thoroughfares of the millions are
left piled high with drifts that imped
ed the progress of man and beast and
tied up the street cars and vehicles.
Mercifully the snow was accompan
ied by a moderate temperature and
in its early stages was welcomed by
the honest part of the 35,000 unem
ployed in the city. All who sought
employment found it readily and at
good wages. The street cleaning de
partment employed ten thousand
extra men, the traction companies as
many more and house holders paid
out many dollars to have walks kept
clear. , Tonight the charitv societies
have their hands full. The Bowery
bread lines were extended many
blocks further than at any time this
winter and at an early hour said the
supply of food was not nearly enough
to meet the demand. The Salvation
Army and other societies are work
ing heroically to minimize the effect
of a sudden shift from spring-like to
freezing weather. . j
During "the day the thermometers
registered 26 to 23. , . , ,
BIG FIRE IN PORTLAND, ME.
PORTLAND, Maine, Jan. 24.-Fire
today destroyed the five-story city
building occupied by the city and
county offices. The loss was one mil
lion. The insurance is $81,000. Rec
ords and register deeds were not
burned but those of the register of
probate were destroyed.
ASBURG PARK, Jan. 24.-Much
damage has been, done on the Jersey
coast from Long Beach north
to the Highlands by the storm today.
The seas broke over the bulkheads
which protect the narrow strip ,of
land between the ocean and the
Shrewsbury river flooding the streets
of Seabright so that they resembled
a miniature Venice. Great damatre
was done to the cottages, pavilion
piers and roadways. The Mayor of
Seabright directed the. occupants of
many homes to leave and retire across
the river. They were removed in
boats. A number of accidents and
four fatalities are attributed to the
storm's account Shipping along the
coast suffered severely though no ser
ious accidents are thus far reported.
NORFOLK, Jan. 24-The storm
sweeping Virginia and North Caro
lina coast continues with , unabated
fury. Scores of vessels were at the
mercy of the gale. Intense cold
added to the hardships of navigation.