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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1908)
A f..: I PUBLISHES FULL ASSOCIATED PRCSS REPORT VOLUME LXIII. NO, 300 O COVERS THE MORNING FIELD ON THC LOWER COLUMBIA ASTC ,rtEG0N. TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1908. PRICE FIVE CENTS BIG MI BUILDING v. Given Severe Test By the Fire. ONE FIREMAN INJURED Many Guests of the Hotel Were Scantely Clad When They Reached the Street PRINTING HOUSES GUTTED Tbf Wind Drova the Flames Direct ly Against the Sixteen-Story Bank Building Which Formed Complete Barrier to Spread of the Fire. CHICAGO, III., January 27.-Fan-tied by a forty-mile gale, a fire which broke out in the Hotel Flor ence, 163 Adam ttreet, early today, scattered burnina ctnberi ftbutit the aouthern portion of the loop district, . endangering a score of itructurci and ; i.l iiiniwi causing $ loss caimwivv a Twenty guests of the hotel, which wet a four-story structure, were, roused from their beds by policemen and firemen. All of the inmates arc believed to have escaped. Adjoining the burning structure on the cast is the partially completed 16 atory building of the Corn Exchange National Bank. The new skyscraper was given a severe test but with the execution of ionic temporary wood work," resisted the flames successfully. .Two members of the fire department were struck by boarls which fell from burning scaffolding on the 15th floor of the bank building. One of them, Edward Wakefield, a truckman, was knocked unconscious. The other Herbert Scanlon, a pipeman, escaped ith slight bruises. The wind drove the flames directly against, the bank structure which formed a complete barrier to the spread of the fire, but at the same ' time acted as a chimney to. carry 'burning brands, sparks, and embers hundreds of feet into the air. During the height of the .conflagration i flaming cascade of sparks poured up oh the Rookery building at La Salle and Adams streets and upon 3 the Board of Trade, Grand Pacific Hotel, Illinois Trust Savingsc Bank, ! Western Union, Home Insurance and ' other big structures. Some of these buildings were erected so long ago , that their fire proof qualities are a matter of doubt and detachments of firemen were sent out to keep watch upon them. Some of the guests in the Grand Pacific Hotel were awak ened by the noise of the fire engines and the glare of the flames, but what ever fears they may have entertained were allayed by employees of the house. ' " : ' .'. . ' The fire started In the rear of the aecond story of the Hotel Florence, Before they were discovered they gained considerable headway and shortly after the firemen arrived the second and third floors and a portion . f the rear wall fell. A six-story building adjoining the hotel on the vest caught fire and was partly gut- 'ted. It was occupied by six printing and two tailoring concerns, most of which suffered heavy damage. In three of the printing offices night shifts of employes were at work and these men were driven to the streets so hurriedly that many were forced to face the blizzard clad in the sleeveless garments of the sterotyp ing room, Many of the guests of the hotel were also scantily clad when they reached the street. They were eared for by the police. Despite the threatening nature of the fire, hard work by the firemen confined it to the two structures. The fight called for the complete fire department forces of the downtown and wholesale dis trict, and the men swarmed upon the roofs and fire escapes of adjoining structures, pouring tons of water up on the names from these vantage points. Two hours after the first alarm had sounded the flames were under control. TO DECLARE THEMSELVES STAMP ON JEWELRY. Natives of India Getting Uneasy. URGED TO OPEN REVOLT NEW YORK. Jan. 27.-Manufae luring jewelers In New York and other places have started a campaign against the scljcrs of fraudulent jew elry. The stamping act, passed by Congress at the request of the jewel ers provides for penalty in case of jewelry stamped as oi a nigner graae nua iKa 4h- WhJl4l than It really is. This has been effec-1 - " " Man is Their Logical Master. tive but as the law does not require stamping there are dealers who sell unstamped jewelry or jewelry fr"om which the mark has been removed. Manufacturing jewelers now warn all nurchasers that thev should look for the stamp on all the jewelry they buy PREPARING TO STRIKE BLOW and should also look for the mark of the manufacturer. AND GOSLN Captain Rhode of German Steamship Neldenfels Brings Startling Infor matlon That the 300,000,000 Natives of India Are on Eve of Revolt Heney Says Fulton Was Their Attorney. NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-That the natives of India are preparing to shake of! the British yoke is the opiulon of Captain William Rhode of the German steamship Neldenfels, jus in from the Orient The captain says that throughout the east the na tives are getting over the idea that the white man is their logical master They Induced Men From Portland's! and are preparing to declare them- North End to File on Timber Land selves. The 300.000,000 natives of AGENTS OF A. B. HAMMOND With Understanding That Their Claims Should be Relinquished. India, he believes, are preparing to strike a blow for freedom and he ex pects it to come soon. The success of Japan in the war with Russia, he believes to have much to do with the changed conditions in the Par East. He says: "In the Punjab district the agitators are urging the natives to open revolt the testimony of W. E. Burke and W. The white man throughout the East G. Goslin, former agents of A. B. is no longer looked upon as the na- Hammond, the timber land specula- tura ord an " It is generally PORTLAND, Jan. 27. -Senator Pulton was again dragged into the Hall-Mays case today by Heney. By! believed among the natives that what the Japanese did, the Indians can also do, and it will not be very long, to my mind, before there will be serious trouble all over Asia." tor, it was shown that in 1899 and 19(X), Fulton appeared as attorney for Burke and Goslin and two others who had been indicted on the charg of conspiracy to defraud the govern- ment by perjury. Burke and Goslin GUARANTEED CREDIT NOTES testified they induced men from! ... Portland's North End toYile on tim- CHICAGO, Jan. 27,-Professor J. lr t:iml with rh. ltmlerstandiiicr that Lawrence Laughlin, head of the de- thcir claims should be relinquished partmcnt of economics at the Univcr- when Burke and Goslin, representing ity:of Chicago and one of the high- Hammond. Drocured in lieu land est authorities on finance in the Unit- script to cover the land included in cd States, believes that the guarante their relinquishments. ' ; J ed credit note measure brought out a Ex-Registrator of the Land Office week ago by the American Bankers niuures, OI VJrCgOn V-lly, lUCnilllCU I nwuiuwu uuumasiuu iuvwu w letter to Hall notifying him of the come a law annarentlv unlawful character of Prof. Laughlin in mi framed a Burke and Goslin's operations. George Sorenson told of a conver ge united btates will be es tablished here soon. Prominent re ligious workers among the Chinese population of the city, in view of the rapidly increasing Chinese popula tion have decided to equip a leased building with all the features of regu lar Young Men's Christian Assn. insti tutions and eventually erect a suitable structure in a locality convenient for the use of the city's Chinese. Plans for the building will be presented at a celebration of the Chinese new year in the Twenty-third street branch of the Young Men's Christian Associa tion. ; :.,' POLICEMAN IS RECOVERING. akw fUKK, Jan. Z7. After an operation which surgeons in the Har lem hospital say is more serious than the one performed in the attempt to save the fife of President McKinley, John Loughmah, a patrolman, who was shot Monday night, last, while attempting to aid a detective in ar resting a pickpocket, is in a fair way to recover. Hiss intestines were pierced six times. At the hospital last night it was said that Loughman would probably be tit for discharge in two weeks' time. ATHLETIC CARNIVAL Athletes Meet in Madison Square Garden. EN CHAMPIONS TO COMPETE An Event Expected to Furnish One of the Closest Contests is the 600, Yard Run in Which the Pastime Athletic Club Will Compete. LAST WEEK THAV TRIAL Judge Dowling Makes Im portant Inquiry. "MANIC DEPRESSIVE" Jerome Disappointed the Spec tors When He Refrained from Last Year's Tactics. EVIDENCE IN REBUTTAL SOON In 1899 Thaw Demanded the Walls of the Room to be Torn Down and Twenty Tons of Ice Put in to Cool it monetary system for the San Dom mgo government, was a member of sation with Hall in which the district'! the 'Indianapolis Currency Comission attorney told him since he (Soreh- sen) and-Browncll and others were implicated in the land frauds, they had better "stand in" and support Hall for reappointment. in 1897 and is author of many books on the subject. In declaring he favored the asset currency measure of the Bankers As sociation, Prof. ' Laughlin emphasi Ex-Surveyor-Gcneral , Meldrum,ed three important points which' he whom the government brought here could recommend the plan to the from McNeill's Island prison, was not most strongly, f ' allowed to testify on an objection by They Ire: 1 'The bill provides the defense that he wos not a com- for notes issues that will be absolute- petcnt witness. Ex-Senator Fierce I ly safe. Mays suffered from a very bad mem- Z. The measure offers protection ory while on the stand. His manner I against inflation. was apparently affected and seemed I 3.1t would provide an elastic cur- to strain the patience of Heney to al- rency for the actual needs of business, most the breaking point Heney tried "I favor the plan developed by the to get the witness to admit Hall and currency commission of the American Mays conspired to get the Bar Asso- Bankers Association," said Professor ciation to demand that Heney retire Laughlin, in an interview yesterday, from the land fraud prosecutions in I because under present circumstances favor of some Oregon man. Mays ) it seems to be the most feasible of all answers displayed only , the densest ignorance on the subject. Heney will close the government's case tomor row noon when the defense will be gin to introduce evidence. Judge Webster expects this will re quire about two days. In that event the cases 'should go to the jury Fri day or Saturday. the remedies thus far' offered. It is not a perfect bill but it is a long step in the right direction." Y. M. C. A. FOR CHINESE. NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-What, it is said, will be the first Chinese Young Men's Christian Association in NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-Many ath letes of national prominence are scheduled to participate in the Pas time Athletic Club's carnival in Madi son Square Garden tonight In the list of competitors are to be found the names of 10 champions, several for mer champions, a world's record holder and three holders of American records of entrants well known in the athletic world are those of J. B. Tay lor and Guy Haskins of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania; Eli B. Parsons of Yale; Melvin Sheppard and Mar tin J. Sheridan of the Irish-American Athletic Club; Chas. J. Seitz and Harry Hillman of the New York Ath letic Club; America's champion high hurdler; Forest Smithson, formerly of Portland, Ore.; Daniel J. Kelly, the speedy western sprinter, and H. C Ramey and Frank J. Waller of the Chicago Athletic Association. ' An event expected to furnish one of the evening's closest contests is the 600 yard run, in which Hillman, Ramey, Taylor and L B. Dorland of the Pastime Athletic Club, will com pete. ' a .'.. ""'''.'.' ' ' Forest 1 Smithson, the champion high hurdler, won the 60-yard hurdles at the indoor, meet of the New York Athletic Club tonight; time 8 seconds. Dan Kelly, champion sprinter, was unable ;to overcome his handicap in the 60-yard dash and in the 220-yard race the field was so large he was unable to get past the handicapped men. Kely ran a scratch in both races. - : , ' flSIS RUEF'S CHAFFEUR MISSING. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27,-Dis-trict Attorney Langdon hints ,that the defendants in the trolley cases know where the missing witness, Alec -Latham, has gone. 'Abraham Ruef flatly accuses the prosecution of having kidnapped his former chauffeur and adds that there is a sinister mo tive. , .'"' v;7' :;i .. "It means more to the prosecution that it does to me to keep Latham out of the way," said Ruef today. "That is something which cannot be demon strated now, but I shall have facts to add in a day, or two which will give the public something to think about." NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-The de fense in the Thaw case closed its case today with "Manic depressive" in sanity as an explanation of homicide. Tomorrow-the prosecution will begin evidence in rebuttal and the case will go to the jury Wednesday night or Thursday "noon. " Jerome will tomor row apply for an appointment of a commission to take the testimony of Abe Hummel, who is in the peniten tiary on Blackwell's Island. Little ton said he would oppose such action, whereupon Judge Dowling said he would go to Blackwell's Island to morrow night in company with the defendant and his counsel to preside at the taking of Hummcl's testimony. The jury will not be taken. Thaw is delighted at the prospect of an out ing and smiled broadly at the court's suggestion., Jerome disappointed the room full of spectators when he re frained from last year's tactics in baiting defense's alienists, thf ee of whom, Drs. Wagner, Jelliffe, and Evans, declared that Thaw, when he killed White, did not know the nature of his act . It was Judge Dowling who made the most important inquiry of the alienists. He desired to know if "Manic depressive" insanity was re current He also wanted, to know if a - person suffering from this kind of insanity is likely to commit assaults. He learned that it is a re-current form of insanity that attacks a victim without warning, a period of insanity followed by maniacal outbursts, then by a period of complete depression and then by a lucid interval. 1 It seemed as if the judge was secur ing the information upon which to base a judicial action in case of a verdict of not guilty on account of in- santy or straight acquittal. For even in the latter event the judge could have Thaw committed for examina tion. The English surgeon, Dr. Syd ney R. Wells, first gave mention to "Manic depressive" or "Sub-cute mania." Wells diagnosed Thaw's case in 1899 when with a normal tem perature Thaw demanded the walls of the room to be torn down and that 20 tons of ice be put in the apartment to cool it Littleton's question which was an swered by the experts, was a com plete resume of the evidence, with the exception as Jerome pointed ' out of Smith's testimony The fourth and probably the last weqk of the trial of Harry, K. Thaw, charged with the murder of Stanford White begins today. In spite of the fact that the first trial required 12 weeks the present one, will, it is ex pected being elided in one third of that time. Much of the evidence in troduced at the first trial has been eliminated this time and with each side knowing what every witness would testify, to the examination of witnesses was much easier and much shorter. Today the 'defense will call to the stand four or five doctors and nurses, who attended Thaw during spell of illness there and will then call its insanity experts, to whom will be read the hypothetical question which Mr. Littleton has prepared and which is said to cotain some 15,000 words. To this question the alienists will reply that in their opinion Thaw waswhen he killed White, incapable of knowing the nature or quality of his act, or that the act was wrong, the legal definition of such insanity as excuses one from punishment for a crime. Mr. Littleton has stated that he believed the case would be com pleted before the end of the week. District Attorney Jerome has not indicated what witnesses he will call on rebuttal or what attempt he will make to combat the insanity defense, which has been set up. It is not be lieved, however, that the rebuttal tes timony will occupy any grit amount of time. Mr. Jerome will probably renew his attempt to have placed before the jury the sealed evidence taken before the lunacy commission last year, when it was decided that Thaw was not in such a mental state as to warrant his removal to an asylum at that time. Several attempts have been made by the district attorney to hare this testimony opened and read to the jury, but so far without avail. Justice Dowling is considering a motion for the opening of the testimony. SAILOR'S PROPERTY Daughter Supposed Her Father Died Penniless. LEFT MONEY IN THE BANKS Half Brother Discovered the Old Sailor Had Left an Estate Valued at $15,000 and Had Himself Ap pointed Administrator. NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-A contest over the property left by i Stephen Thompson, an old sailor of the navy has developed through the application of his daughter, who has not seen him for 25 years prefious to his death, for the discharge of James M. Thompson as administrtor of the estate and the turning over of the money belonging to the estate to her. Until a short time ago she supposed her father to have died penniless. Thompson enter ed the navy in 1865 and served con tinuously until 1881, when he was transferred to the Brooklyn . naval hospital where he died last August In 1877, while serving on the great lakes, he married a girl living in Erie She continued to live there and he saw her only at intervals between voyages. After he died, James M. Thompson, his half brother, discov ered that the old sailor had left an estate which is estimated to be worth $15,000, most of it in the shape of deposits an banks. He had himself appointed administrator and - the daughter who now asks his removal says the first she knew of an estate left by her father ;.: was . the the half brother's proposal to her that she take $5500 as her share and divide the rest among the fath er's half brothers and sisters. NEVADA POLICE BILL. CARSON CITY, Nev., Jan. ,27. The police bill passed the House to day, 31 to 7. , . The bill provides for a system of policing in time of riots that it is be lieved will quell all the trouble in the Goldfield section at the present time ' and place the state in a position to handle future contingencies that may arise Several members who were de vout union men made a fight in oppo sition to the bill Speaker Skaggs left his chair and voted. Skaggs de nounced the measure as pernicious and czar-like and predicted that the men who voted for it were digging their own political graves.