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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1908)
mni ' ' v : - PUIUSHCt rULL ASSOCIATED PRK38 Rf FORT COVCRSTHC MORNING FIELD ON TMC LOWER COLUMBIA VOLUME LXIII. NO. 308 ASTORIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1908. PRICE FIVE CENTS 1 SHOOTS HISFATHER Rebuked Son For Using Liquor SON FIRED FIVE SHOTS Father And Son Had Only Talked A Few Moments When Shooting Occurred. YOUNG HARG IS WAS ARRESTED Exact Cause of the Shooting it Not Known But Supposed to be Result of Difference! Which Have Existed Between Them. JACKSON, Ky., Feb. 6.-Formcr County Judge llargis, who for many year was a member of the tate Democratic executive committee and accused of complicity in many mur dcrt and a prominent figure in (cud which have disrupted trcalhit county for many yearn, wan shot and killed here this afternoon by bin son, Beach llargis. The son fired five shots in rapid succession at bin father who fell dead. The exact cause of the shooting in not known but it is sup posed to have been the result of dif ference which have exited between the father and son for some time. Two men are reported to have had a quarrel several night ago, when the father, it is alleged, was compell ed to resort to violence to restrain his son. Young llargis came into the More this afternoon and had been drinking. His father rebuked him for the use of liquor and hot words followed. The father and son had only talked a few moment when the shooting occurred. Margin was ar rested. Me was raving like a maniac rnd the officers were compelled to ilrnir liim to lail. " -a - MAY BE MURDER. MARTINEZ, Cal, Feb. 6.-Kx-citcmcnt has been aroused in this vicinity by the finding of a man's dismembered body floating in the bay near the sugar refinery at Crockett yesterday. Only the legs and torso of the body were found, the head and trunk having been hacked or torn away and there are many circumst ances which suggest that a brutal murder has been committed. Who the victim was and how he met death arc questions the authorities so far ' have been unable to throw any light. Idontlicaliou is impossible because the head, trunk and most of the clothing' arc now missing ami unless the boatmen who are now searching the bay should unearth the rest of the body the mystery will remain unsolved. The clue to the identity is the clothing of the legs and ab domen of the body. Under instruc tions of the sheriffs office, boatmen have been making a careful search on adjacent portions of the bay today in the hope of finding the missing trunk and head but their efforts have been without result. Portious of clothing which still cling to the body indicates that the man had been dressed. An inquest will probably be held today. hot weather beverage as beer, larger beer, ale and porter. Deer Is beer they told the food men, o they would lie to have the govern ment case up a little on its require ments. "Also kindly admit sugar and glucose as raw material to be used as the manufacturer please" pleaded John Schram of New York, brewers. The government experts said they would think it over. JUDGE WEBSTER'S ARGUMENT In Behalf of His Old Friend and Associate John HalL PORTLAND, Feb. 6. Judge Web ster consumed the entire day in his plea in behalf of his old friend and associate, John Hall, today, and had not concluded when the court ad journed until tomorrow morning. He expects to finish by noon. The pres ent plan is for Heney to make the final argument tomorrow afternoon and Judge Hunt will charge the jury Saturday morning, Judge Webster's argument was strong and forceful and produced a good effect. Me confined himself to an analysis of the testimony except at rare intervals. ALBANY THEIR MECCA. NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-New York club women are planning a descent upon Albany in force February 10, when the question of an amendment to the state constitution granting full suffrage to women come up before the judiciary committee of the senate and assembly. Mrs, Harriet Staun ton Blateh, president of the Equality league for Self-Supporting Women, will lead thetXrgsticmratsiawiwi)1 to announcement made yesterday. RECORDS Oil Carrying Across The Atlantic In Winter HAWSERS 3000 FEET LONG Bringing a Six-Masted Barge Built in England That Will Have a Capa city of Seventy Thousand Barrels Iroquois Holds 60,000 Barrels. NEW YORK, Feb. 6. Records in oil-carrying across the Atlantic are being broken by the Standard Oil Company even in this mid-winter sea son of tempests in the paths of trans Atlantic shipping Today the oil carrying steamship Captain A. F. Lucas will sail for Hamburg towing the five-masted Standard Oil barge No, 95 at the end of a long steel hawser. On their way east they will pass somewhere the new oil carrying steamship , Iroquois bringing the British built six-masted barge Nava- hoc by means of a steel hawser 2 1-4 inchsc in diameter and 3000 feet long, the stoutest and longest haw ser ever made. The capacity of the Navahoe is 70,000 barrels and that of the Iroquois 60,000 barrels which is the record for an oil tank and her tow. ! MAKE IT BEER. CHICAGO, Feb. 6.-Just call it beer and let it go at that, was the ad vice given yesterday by representa tives of the National Brewers As sociation to the Government Food experts in conference here, -s. The brewers could see a bit of rea son in various classifications of the TRIAL TRIP OF CRUISER. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6,-The new armored cruiser South Dakota sister ship of the California and the other armored cruisers now on the ! coast will have her first government trial' trip on Feburary 25, according to information given out yesterday, The South Dakota, now at Mare Is land, will be taken to South Barbara Channel for the trials and no doubt is entertained that she will be able to repeat the performance of . her builders trial, when the cruiser made more than the required 22 knots an hour and also proved herself entirely seaworthy. By the time the battle ship fleet arrives the South Dakota will be in commission and will make the eight of her formidable class on this coast. Gill PURSUES A BURGLAR i. Armed With Two Heavy Revolvers BULLET THROUGH HAT The Young Woman Fired Again and the Burglar Replied With a Bullet ' HAD BEEN OUT AUTOMOBIUNG Engaged in a Running Fight With a Burglar Who Made Hia Escape Afer a Bullet Had Plowed Through His Hat LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6. -Armed with two revolvers which she used in the manner of an expert, Miss Cfarjjbrl , Otto., a voting woman 20 years old, tonight engaged in a run ning fight with a burglar, who made his escape after a pullet had plowed its way through his hat. Miss Otto had been out automobil ing and when she returned found a burglar in her house. Without at tracting his attention she .slipped across the street and borrowed two revolvers. " Meanwhile the burglar emerged and covered three others members of the party with a gun. As he was descend the steps, Miss Otto from the across the street opened fire. The bullet lift ed bis bat from his head. The young woman fired again and the intruder replied with a bullet. He started to run, Miss Otto pursuing, she sending bullet after bullet in his direction. Once or twice the man turned and fired at the girl but she pursued him until one of her shots struck a little girl in the, hand. Miss Otto then thrust the guns into the hands of another pursuer and went to the aid of the little girl. The burglar escaped but the police all over the city have been furnished with his description. DIED FROM FIRE. Prisoner Seta Fire to Keroscene Soaked Blanket Cell-Mate Burned. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6.- Tragedy attended the investigation that was begun today into the con dition of the city and county jail. Judge Cook who was being escorted about the jail by Supt. Kierman on a tour of inspection had scarcely passed in front of cell 104 when Arthur Blessin, a prisoner awaiting trial on a charge of assault, set fire to a blanket, damp with kerosene, and waved it about the cell. John Olson, who occupied the same compartment, endeavored to quench the fire and hastily .wrapped ( another blanket about the blaze. Assistance was rendered with all possible speed and after the fire was out the two men, badly burned about the hands, head and body were hurried to the Central Emergency Hospital. Blessin died at midnight. Blessin had sprinkled the blanket with coal oil which he was allowed to use a small stove for the prepara tion of food. STATUE OF MATT QUAY. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 6.-Be-cause of opposite to the placing the statue of the late M. S. Quay in the rotunda of the new state capitol at Harrisburg, David H. Lane of this city, chairman of the republican city committee, has suggested the the question be put to a vote of the peo ple of the state. The legislature ap propriated $20,000 for the erection of a statue of the late senator in Capitol Park at Harrisburg and there has been more or less criticism of the ac tion of the legislature principally by persons politically opposed to the late 'republican leader. INTENT TO CORRUPT. Abe Ruef Says That he Has Never Been Legally Indicted. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6. -Abe Ruef today took what promises to be a long drawn out and technical legal battle. When brought before Judge Lawlor for the purpose of having his trial set, Ruef set up the claim that he never had been legally arraigned. He claims that a copy of the indict ment handed him in the trolley cases omitted to state that he had bribed the supervisors "With intent to cor rupt them" as contained in the orig inal indictment. INDUSTRIAL INCREASING. NEW YORK, Feb. d-Increasing industrial activity is indicated by re ports from some of the manufacturing supply companies covering the month of January. An official of one of the big manufacturing concerns said yes terday that the January volume of business was larger by considerable than that for December, while a pro minent manufacturer of steam and gas engines reported orders three times larger in January than in De cember. From these facts industrial experts argue a revival of confidence already established, particularly as orders tor power machinery Jndicate needed enlargement or entension. in productive departments. PER DIEM CHARGES Present Surplus Of Cars Causes Trouble And Expense CARS RETURNED TO OWNERS The Railroads Would Prefer to Let Other Roads Use Their Cara Free of Charge Rather Than to Haul and Store Them. CHICAGO, Feb. 6. A special meeting of the American Railway Association to consider the decrease in traffic which had resulted on Jan uary 22 in a surplus of 339,053 cars, began in Chicago and will continue today and tomorrow. The decrease is shown to be startling report of the efficiency committee February 6, 1907, when a shortage of 104,226 cars was reported, and appeals were made by shippers to congress to pass laws requiring the railroads to increase their equipments to meet traffic de mands. ! The chief work of the association probably will be the consideration of the per diem charges for cars in the service of railroads other than the owners. The per diem charge here tofore has been 50 cents upon foreign cars. With the present great surplus of cars the charge has caused the im mediate return of foreign cars to their care at a great expense and conse quent storage. The railroads would prefer to let other roads use their cars free of charge rather than be forced to haul and store them over their systems, and it is likely that this factvwill lead the association to suspend the per diem charge upon foreign cars until they situation clears up. PRESERVATION OF FORESTS. CINCINATTI, Feb. 6.-In his an nual address before the national hardwood lumber ' assocation today President Ransome declared that the wasteful extravagance in public and business life caused the recent panic. He advocated improvement and the preservation of the forests. REPUBLICAN CONVENTION Florida First One In The . Field FISIFIGHTS A FEATURE Two Conventions Held In The Same Hall And At The Same Time FOR AND AGANST ROOSEVELT Police Were on Duty in Hall and Were Frequently Called to Eject Unruly Delegate Nine-Tenths of Both Conventions Were Negroes. ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., Feb. 6. Florida Republicans stand con spicuously in the lime light today as being the first to hold their conven tion" tosHcct"delegutes hr trierra- tional convention and it is said here that strenuous and exciting scenes were enacted today are forecast of similar scenes in the other southern states, caused by the efforts of anti Roosevelt Republicans for control in the national convention. Two con ventions really convened at the same time in the same hall. The progress of business was frequently interrupt ed by knockdown and drag-out fights. The officeholders' faction' was call ed to order by the state chairman and they proclaimed themselves the regu lar party They adopted resolutions endorsing Roosevelt's policies and endorsing Taft for president On the other side of the hall the anti-Taft convention took a conservative action and chose delegates untrammeled by instructions.. They claim that altogether branded as bolters by the other convention their delegates will be seated in the national convention They adopted resolutions strongly condemning the attempts to influence and control by the use of federal patronage through the government officeholders, selec tion of delegates to the national con vention. The city marshal and a policemen were frequently called up on to eject unruly delegates. Nine tenths of both conventions were negroes. THEY ACTUALLY WORKED. WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-The po litical speech-making came to an end today in the House and the actual consideration of the Indian appro priation bjll was resumed. A bitter fight was waged on the proposition to abolish non-reserve schools. Prev ious to the debate on the Indian bill Clayton spoke on the President's message and held the Republicans as being divided into two factions, reac tionaries and White House cuckoos. The message, he charged, was an indictment against Republican party for its dereliction and incompetency. The consideration of the Indian bill was not concluded when the House adjourned. "STORY" SHIP ASHORE. NEW YORK, Feb. 6-The ground ing off the Cuban coast of the steam er Baker is much regretted in New York, particularly among those who were in the habit of frequenting her dock and the places where her offi cers and crew congregated while in port The newspaper reporters who walk the docks in search of inter esting "stories" the sight of the Baker was always a glad one, foe the steamer' never came into port without a "story" aboard. Captain Ocrtel of the Baker was noted even among sail ormen as a spinner of yarns and his officers and crew vied with him in telling of the wonders of the deep. Never did the Baker come into port without a tale for the reporters even it were only the fighting of a sea serpent or the dodging of a water spout. It was from the Baker that Came the new classic story of the sawfish that attempted to saw a bole in the ship, which was only saved by tbe ship's carpenter cutting off the fish's saw, WILL HAVE TO STAY AWHILE. NEW YORK, Feb. 6-No imme diate move will be made to secure the release of Harry K. Thaw from the insane asylum at Matteawan, accord ing to an interview credited to RusseU Pcabody, Thaw's personal counsel. It has been practically decided that there is no way under the law by which Thaw can be confined in a private sanitarium instead of the Matteawan institution, and his law yers and family are said to have agreed that it would be unwise to ask for his release now. Martin W. Lit tleton, who conducted Thaw's de fense in court, left yesterday for a six weeks vacation in Florida and it is possible that no move will be made in the case before his return. It is said that the physicians at the asylum will not recommend Thaw's release until they have had from 60 to 90 days in which to observe him. PHILIPPINE SCOUTS' BILL. WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. The Senate committee on military affairs today ordered a favorable report on -the bill creating -the office of Captain in the Philippine Scouts. BLACK DIAMONDS Frisco Has An Over-plus Of Coal PRICES DON'T CHANGE Blockade Was Caused by Wholesale Chartering That Followed a Near Famine Last Winter Price so Fax Have Not Taken Any Tumble. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6. For the first time in the history of the port, cargoes of coal from various parts of the world have arrived in such numbers that a blockage has resulted and more than 50,000 tons of the black diamonds fill vessels that are unable at present to find oppor tunity to discharge their huge loads. Half that quantity of coal is not dis charging into bunkers and hoppers, 20,000 tons more of coal are hourly expected in port from the mines and add to the glut and 30,000 tons are being stored in vessels chartered for warehouse purposes. The blockade was caused by the wholesale chartering that followed a near famine last winter and the prev ious season, when some big yards could not serve their best customers. Whether the immense supply now here will result in cheaper coal re mains to be seen. So far prices have been taken no appreciable tumble. Six ships and steamers that were idle in port have been chartered for use as warehouses and this fleet, with its capacity for about 30,000 tons, will in all probability be increased if suit able vessels can be secured RAILROADS APPEAL. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6. An argument was made before the United States court of appeals today in' an appeal of the railroads doing business in Oregon and Washington from the interlocutory decree of in junctions ' issued against them in Oregon in favor of the lumbermen's association, which prevents them from putting into effect their new tariff on lumber shipments.
