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VOLUME LXIII. NO. 306
ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBUARY 4, 1908.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
APPEAL OF
SA PILES
Makes Eloquent Plea In
me Senate.
ALASKA-YUKON FAIR
Wanted a Government Appro
priation of Seven Hundred
Thousand Dollars.
WOULD PROMOTE INTEREST
Piles Said the People ol Washington
Had Contributed Two Million Dol
lars to the Exposition Nations'
Bordering on Coast to Exhibit
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-Senator
rile today delivered an eloquent
appeal in the Senate in favor of an
appropriation of $700,000 for a gov
ernment exhibit at the Seattle Fair.
Piles paid a glorious tribute to the
resources and development of the
Pacific northwest, both in respect to
its agricultural interests and the
commerce of the Pacific. He declar
ed that it commerce is not what it
should be. Germany and Great Hrit
ain have paid more attention to that
field than have the United States.
The Exposition in behalf of which he
apokc, he said, would promote the
interest in the great future of Ameri
can ascendancy on the Pacific. Tiles
said the people and State of Washing
ton had contributed two millions to
the Exposition, lie said foreign ex
hibits will be confined strictly to the
product of the nations bordering on
the Pacific Ocean and who are direct
ly interested in the development of
the Pacific trade. The Exposition
will illustrate the wonderful mineral
resources of Alaska and will enable
the United States to enter into trade
ca. ana win increase us lunmititc,
Piles pictured in vivid language the
settlement of the great Northwtst in
the face of the predictions made by
distinguished statesmen adverse to
the practical utility of that region.
The day was chiefly devoted to the
consideration of the bills on the cal
endar, several of which were passed.
the Mcdonald trial.
Testimony Given That Guerin Had
Choked and Threatened Defendant
CHICAGO, Feb. 4. -Mary J.
Campbell testified in the McDonald
trial today to having interrupted
Webster Guerin' in the set of chok
ing Mrs. McDonald and to having
heard him threaten to take her' life.
Mrs. Lillie Logan told of having
heard a quarrel in a downtown res
taurant between Guerin and Mrs.
Donald in the couse of which the de
fended refused a demand for money
saying that she would "Tell Dad." To
this Guerin replied that if she ever
threatened him again lie wanted her
to know that he could shoot straight.
DECISION IN LAND CASES.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. It was
stated at the general land office today
that the decision in perhaps a dozen
or more similar cases had been ren
dered in the past few months, hold
ing that a person could take but one
nssienment of land from claimants.
This is a reversal of the former prac-
ice which nas oeen mat a person
could take any number of assign
ments, but the total eouia not De
more than 30 acres.
MITCHELL SUPERCEDED.
CHICAGO, Feb. 3.-A despatch to
the Record-Herald from Indianapolis,
says: Thomas Lewis has been elect
ed to succeed John Mitchell as presi
dent of the United Mineworkers of
America and William Ryan to suc
ceed William 4 Wilson, as secretary
treasurer of the organization. The
official canvass was completed last
night. Lewis has been, vice-president
of the Miners' Union and made the
race against Wilson, dcfcalng the
former secretary-treasurer by approx
imately 5000 votes. Ryan resigned the
office of secretary-treasurer of the
Illinois Mineworkers to enter the race
for the national office. He is elected
by an overwhelming vote.
HUNTING THE "WOMAN."
NEW YORK, Pel). 3,-The body
of a man found Saturday in the wreck
of a derelict sloop off North Beach,
Long Island, has been identified as
that of Martin Klenan, well known in
Wall street. The police are at work
on the case and believe it to be one
of murder. The wounds in the neck
are thought to have been made by a
stiletto or some similar instrument
and the police do not believe they
could have been self-inflicted. Klcn
nan is suposed to have been wealthy
at one time and IS years ago is said
to have parted from his wife and
daughter. It is said that of late he
had lost his fortune but he was con
stantly seen in Wall sreet and on
Broadway. The police are searching
for a woman.
HONEST COINAGE.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 3.-The
transport Crook which arrived here
yesterday from Manila, brought $2,
000,000 in Philippine currency to be
recoined at the San Francisco mint
and shipped back to the islands.
More than the proper quantity of sil
ver had been put into the coins at the
first mintage.
Of Playgoers To Playgoers In
New York City.
GREAT AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT
Declares Every Generation Must De
cide Its Own Standards in Stage
Field Deals With Interpolations-
America Has Just as Good Plays.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-TM the
present day disposition is to set
dramatic standards too high was the
statement made by Bronson Howard,
dean of the American dramatists, in
an address before the members of the
Playgoers' Club last night. The sub
ject of the evening was "The Stand
ard Drama.", and Mr. Howard began
his discussion by pointing out that
there can be no such thing as contem
poraneous standard drama in this age.
"Future generations must decide
whether the plays of any age are to
be considered standard," he said. He
the discussed "Our Responsibility as
Playgoers," remarking that now he
nnis be ranked among the playgoers
and no longer among the writers of
plays.
"Playgoers today demand of play
wrights things impossible to do. In
America we have place in the plays
that must surely be classed among
the 50 best outside the Shakespearean
) writings.
"People declaim against interpella
tions in plays. In 1830 there were two
rival Shakespearean playhouses in
London. One of these introduced a
management op the opera house
got the worst of it until they intro
duced a man monkey from Italy and
yet the critics are surprised at interpellations."
UNA
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POLITICS
Debate Was Opened by
Townscnd.
RECORDS NEED PATCHES
Financial Depression Caused by
the Revelations of Depravity
in High Places.
BANKS RUINED BY CRIME
Cockran Denounced the Special
Message Hepburn, Who Followed
the Fiery Democrat, Said the
People Will Stand by Roosevelt
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3-Three of
the giants of the House had their in
nings today. Technically, the Indian
appropriation bill was under discus
sion, but legislation was relegated to
the background while national poli
tics occupied the stage. Before the
political question cropped out, the
House passed the general widow's
pension bill granting a flat pension of
$12 per month to the widows of all
honorably discharged soldiers of the
United States who had not heretofore
received the benefits of a pension, and
an increase of $4 per month for those
who have been benefited under the
act of 1890. The bill involves an ex
penditure of more than $12,000,000
annually. The political debate was
opened by Townscnd of Michigan,
who in a prepared speech, claimed for
the Republican party .credit for all
national legislation for the last 50
years of vital interest to the public.
Representative Sherwood, Demo
crat, in following Townscnd declared
his ideas of the President's message.
He suggested that the reason the mes
sage devoted so much attention to
labor features may have been because
of the President's interest in Taft's
candidacy, and may be a spectacular
and sensational appeal to divert the
attention of the country from the sec
retary's record. He also declared that
the President, like the Secretary of
War, has a labor record of his own
and that is in need of patching. Sher
wood declared that the troops were
sent to Goldficld at the behest of
Senator Guggenheim and placed at
the disposal of the mincowners. He
said hct sending -of troops there was
clearly against the statutes. Speaking
of sending Mayer, Haywood and
Pcttibone to Idaho, Sherwood said
that when the writs of habeas corpus
had been illegally issued the Presi
dent did not interfere. "He was as
silent as the oysters in Oyster Bay."
Burke Cockran also replied to Town
send. He denied the accuracy of
Townscnd's statements and said that
since the beginning of the republic
there had not been a single policy in
corporated into the law that was not
of Democratic origin. Cockran grew
vitriolic in referring to the bank
presidents and other corporation of
ficials who had been guilty of illegal
action. He said that the recent
financial depression had been caused,
not by the President but by the reve
lations of depravity in high places in
the financial world. Regarding the
"Plunderers of insurance companies"
Cockran said it had never seemed to
dawn on anyone that the plunderers
"Ought to be sent to some cell in the
penientiary." He said these men do
not flee from justice, bu go into the
courts to obtain further authority
over the very trusts they had betray
ed. Regarding the recent bank fail
ures in New York, Cockran said that
not one of them failed through an er
ror in judgment, "Every one of them
was ruined by crime." He said it had
been asked why the President doesn't
prosecute "these gentlemen T' but he
said that he had noted "it
was always propounded by
those who, if they thought there was
any danger of prosecution, would en
gage in a public discussion in the
hustings and in the newspapers, but
would be quietly seeking steamship
tickets to foreign lands." He said this
message shows that the President ap
preciates his duty. The message was,
Cockran declared, an inspired procla
mation to the American people.
Cockran further referred to the Presi
dent as a crusader, "the only one the
Republicans had," but he said that
the President was disqualified. "His
nomination by you or us would be
political dishonor." The President
had renounced the field of politics and
had taken a noble position before the
civilized world. Never before in the
history of the country, he said, had a
President still in office been the ob
ject of the bitterest attack, hated as
no hatred was ever before treasured
against a public official yet able; while
still in office, to practically fix the
conditions upon which the parties
will contend. Cockran said there was
a "Democratic crusader in Bryan."
He did not' think Cannon one, nor
Knox, nor Taft. Cockran declared
himself a champion of the principles
which were directly and indirectly
embodied in the President's message.
He said that if the President persists
in his determination to enforce the
law against the plunderers of millions
they will be given precedence in the
pathway to prison over pilferers of
pennies. Hepburn, who followed
Cockran declared that the President
had done nothing to unsettle condi
tions by his own acts. He had simply
called atatention to the deeds of male
factors. Hepburn said that stock
gamblers had done more than any
other class to bring on this disaster.
"In everything the President has
done," continued Hepburn, the Amer
ican people will stand by him. In
every recommendation of the message
the American people will stand be
hind him."
During the speeches of Cockran
and Hepburn, there were frequent in
terruptions of applause. This was
especially true when the President
was alluded to as a crusader, and
when Bryan's name was mentioned.
THE HALL TRIAL
Supposed to Have Known of
Thayer Frauds."
TESTIMONY OF GRAND JURORS
Evidence Shows Hall's Acts Appar
ently Showed Protection of Special
Agent Loomis Goslin and Burke
Bounded Over Without Hearing.
PORTLAND, Feb. 3.-Almost the
entire day was devoted in the Hall
trial to the attempt to show that Hall
and his assistant, Mays, were inform
ed of the existence of a conspiracy
known as the "Thayer frauds" in Til
lamook county, before the statute of
limitations prevented - the prosecu
tions of alleged conspirators.
Several members of the grand jury
which investigated the Thayer, case
I testified in support of the govern
ment's contention as did one of the
alleged conspirators, former Special
Agent Deady, and others.
During the session held tonight
members of the grand jury which in
dicted McKinley, Puter, et al, testified
to acts by Hall of the apparent pro
tection of former special Agent
Loomis. Deady tonight testified that
when Goslin and Burke were arrested,
a conference between Fulton and
Hall resulted in their being bound
over to the grand jury without a pre
liminary hearing before the commis
sioner. I
FINE AST
MURDER
Chicago Italians Busy At
Their Trade
SOME HORRIBLE WORK
Young Man Ordered To Rob
His Uncle, And Failing Is
Shot To Death
EXTERMINATING WAR AFOOT
'White Hand" Society Band and
Sworn to Annihilate the Blackmail-
- ing and Murderous Gangs of the
Windy City.
CHICAGO, Feb. 3.-Murder as the
climax of a series of threatening let
ters by the blackmailing gang of
Italians known as the Black Hand,
will give the newly formed "White
Hand" Society its first opportunity
to show its strength.
Following closely upon the receipt
of several letters demanding money,
Jos. Concillo was shot down in cold
blood in the alley in the rearNif his
home last night. Three shots were
fired into his body at close range,
each one taking effect Death was al
most instantaneous. The murderer
escaped.
The shooting followed within a
few hours an attempt to murder Lu
ciano Tavaselli, and members of his
family in their home. He, too, had
received several letters demanding
$500.
Three shots were fired through the
windows of his bedroom, "but none
took effect
Concille was a young man of small
means, but his uncle Guiseppi Bruis
cato ,is suposed to be well off.
GALES IN NEW YORK.
STEAMER BURNS.
HALIFAX, Feb. 3. The steamer
St. Cuthbert, was burned off the
Nova Scotian coast on Sunday. The
steamer Cymric rescued 37 persons
including the captain'. Thirteen of
the crew were drowned The life
boats inade thre perilous trips to the
Cymric. The seacocks were left open
on the St. Cuthbert and she probably
sank within a few hous.
CONDOLENCES WITHHELD.
BUDAPEST, Feb. 3 The Hun
garian Chamber of Deputies refused
to pass a motion condoling 'the royal
family of Portugal in the death of
King Carlos because its views of
freedom are such that the House
could not dictate a posthumous reso
lution to a king who had abolished
constitutional government' and insti
tuted a dictatorship. :. '
HARBOR PIRATES. .
OAKLAND, Feb. 3,-Three harbor
pirates, wearing masks and, armed
with revolvers, boarded the barge
Eva, lying at anchor late last night
and forced Mrs. V. Lundgren, the
wife of the captain of the barge, to
give up $30 in money and jewelry.
The Oakland poke were notified and
a search of the harbor was made, but
no evidence of the three robbers was
found.
IT MAY BE BOGUS.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-Donbt is
thrown on the genuineness of the flag
sold in London last week as that
of the Lawrence ship, the Chespeake,
by G. Wilfred Pearce, who has been
investigating the matter in behalf of
the New Jersey historical society.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3. The north
west gale that swept down over the
city yesterday caused considerable
trouble, particularly to shipping off
the port and in the bay and rivers.
The tide was lowered fully six feet
below the normal low water and sev
eral ferry boats went ashore in the
East River near Hell Gate and re
mained there for three or four hours.
A dozen funerals were held op be
cause of the grounding of the boats.
Old rive men state that the water
has not fallen so low in more than 20
years and predict serious damage to
day unless the gale subsides.
SUPPOSED PLOT.
EL PASO, Feb. 3. In the arrest of
Milo Gjonovich, a native of Monte
negro, at Globe, Ariz., the postal au
thorities believe hey have discovered
a plot against the reigning head of i
Montenegro, Prince Nicholas.
Gjonovich was arrested for taking
a letter from the postoffice addressed
to Bojo Pocek, another Montenegran
and his defense is that he. was acting
in the interest of his government
Several relatives of Pocek have been
arrested. Gjonovich has been working
at Globe as a miner but is well edu
TO OPPOSE IMMIGRATION,
SEATTLE, Feb. 3.-An interna
tional organization to oppose Oriental
immigration is' projected by the
Asiatic exclusion league which be
gan its first annual convention here
today.
New King of Portugal Establishes
NewCabniet
FRANCO FORCED TO RESIGN
Word Was Received at Lisbon That
a British Fleet of Unknown Num
ber Passed Oporto Bound South
Queens Watch at Side of Their Dead
LISBON, Feb. 3.-Under the new
regime, with the new king and the
establishment of a new cabinet, Por
tugal seems for the moment to be. at
peace. There is an underlying cur
rent of revolution, however, and the
strictest measures are being taken to
preserve order.
Franco, the dictator, was forced to
resign because of the bitterness of
the people against him," and the new
cabinet will strive for the welfare of
the fatherland under the premiership
of Rear Admiral Do AmaraL The new
cabinet which is composed of the
strongest members of the various fac
tions, but were all opposed to Franco,
has drawn to it a strong patriotic
supporting movement. Wofd has been
received that the British fleet, the
number of vessels not being stated,
passed Oporto today bound for Lis
bon. i
Investigations by the police show
that the murders were carefully plan
ned on Saturday.
The assassins met secretly in the
back room of a cafe and there laid out
every step of the plot, which they
were enabled to do, as all details re
lating to, the home coming of the
king had been made public. To each
was assigned a position in. the work
of shooting down the members of the
royal family, but lots were drawn for
the execution of each particular vic
tim. Those who drew the queen and
Prince Manuel failed to carry out
their bloody task. The chamber in
which repose the bodies of King Car
los and Philippe has been draped in
mourning. Their biers are surround
ed by lighted candles and Queen
Amelie and the Dowager Queen
Maria Fia, watch continuously at the
side of their dead. The funerals will
probably be held February 8 and the
bodies will lie in state probably be
ginning tomorrow.