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PUBLISHES FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT '
cdvERSTHE MORNING FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA
VOLUME LXIII. NO. 406
ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, 'RUARY 15, 1908.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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EMILY REED
WRECKED
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Went Ashore at Mouth of
thcNchalem.
TEN SEAMEN DROWNED
M
Slxilncludlng Captain and Wife
Rescued-Gause unKnown
.-Attributed to Fog.
BOUND HITHER WITH COAL
Vessel Wm Under Charter to the
Alaska PUhermen'e Pecking Com
pny for Alaska Season-Wat Out
From Newceitle 103 Daya.
PORTLAND, Feb. H.-The Amcr
ican ship Emily Reed, from New
castle, N. S. W., to. Portland foun
dercd at 1:30 this morning at the
mouth of the Nchalem rivtr. Ten of
the crew were lost, ana six, '''
the captain and hie wile, were saved.
She was coal laden and had been out
103 days. ,i - ;
The startling intelligence wa re
ceived in this city by telephone from
Garibaldi, last niijht thai the Ameri
can ship Emily Reed, now 104 days
out from NewcastleAustralia, with
coal, for this port, wai totally wreck
ed yesterday afternoon, on the coast
of Oregon, just south of the mouth
of the Nchalem, and 10 mile from
Bay City, with a lost of life aggre
gating U men out of her crew of 17.
The cause of the disaster, and its
character are yet among the myster
ies of the hour, as well as the names
and positions of the men who were
lot, but it is generally attributed to
dense fogs. , ?
The Emily Reed was under charter
to the Alaska Fishermen's Tacking
Company, of this city, for
the season of 1908 at its Nushagak
fisheries: and her loss will entail the
chartering of another vessel in this
ehalf; and rumor has it that ner
place will be filled by tne American
ship Henry Villard, for which nego
tiations have already been started in
view of the extraordinary delay in
the arrival of the Emily Reed from
Australia.
The Emily Reed was built at Wal
daboro, Maine, In 1880, and was con
sequently, 28 years old; was a full
rigged ship of 1466 tons net burden.
Her length was 215 feet, her breadth.
40.6 feet, and her depth of hold was
24 feet. Slie carried a crew of 17,
and was registered out of San Fran
cisco. . , . ', . '
was on and a strong tide was run
ning, When she hit the beach her
back broke and the forward end took
a lint to port.
An effort was made to launch
lifeboat, but as soon as it hit the
water it swamped and three of (he
occupant were drowned before the
eyes of those who were left on board,
The men forward were swept from
the deck by the waves. The mate
was washed overboard and drowned
while trying to direct the movements
of the men forward.
The captain stuck to the poop and
forced his wife to remain below, The
second mate and three men in his
watch, were itationed on the main
deck and when the forward portion
of the ship listed, they succeeded in
making their way aft and by clinging
to that portion of the ship until day
light, they made their way to the
shore. It was then dead low water,
At a late hour yesterday afternoon
there was scarcely anything left of
the once famous ship, and her cargo
of coal was strewn several hundred
yards along the beach.
Those saved were:
CAPTAIN AND MRS. KESSEL.
CHARLES THOMPSON, the sec
ond mate, and three seamen.
The lost were:
DUBIE, first mate.
WESTLAND, the carpenter.
Seven seamen and a cabin boy.
SHAH OF PERSIA.
VIENNA, Feb. 14.- Areport la in
circulation that the Shah of Persia
has been assassinated. No confirma
tion of the report is obtainable here.
LATER 3KI0 A. M.
The ship Emily Reed is ashore
just south of the mouth of the Nc
halem river. ' '
The survivors were brought to Bay
y City yesterday morning and are now
quartered at private residences in that
town, The ship has broken up and
will be a total .loss as will be the
cargo of 2110 tons of coal.
The vessel was consigned to the
Pacific Coast Company at Portland.
Owing to the long passage of the
ship 25 per cent reinsurance had been
offered on her. The chronometers of
the Reed were off and the master
worked her too close to shore before
he discovered the error. Captain
Kessel was endeavoring to make
Tillamook Rock. ' He was correct in
the latitude butwas too far eastward.
When he discovered his position it
was too late to wear ship and she
struck on one of the most dangerous
places on the Oregon shore. The
VrRecd struck bow on, A heavy sea
MERCHANT
TAILORS
ABL RUEF'S
AFFIDAViiS
at a speed of four knots, fir
the Presidential salute as they
J passed in review. It required one hour
lur me iuti iu punt, men ine uaquc
dano lifted her anchor and escorted
the fleet well out to sea.
Styles for the Coming
Considered.
Year
ENSEMBLE MUST BE MODEST
The Opinion of London and Paris
is in no Way to be Taken Into
Consideration Cuffs on Winter
' Trousers to be Tabooed.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 14. -Merchant
tailors from all over the country are
on their way to their homes after a
three days' session in New York of
the Merchant Tailors' National Ex
change, a meeting at which the styles
for men's wear arc each season de
cided. While no hard and fast rules
are laid down by the exchange, the
predominating opinion of the tailors
of the country is secured and on that
opinion "styles are based. Individual
ity was the keynote of the meeting
and while predmoinating opinion is
recognized as the standard for the
coming year it was plainly stated
that the opinion of London and Paris
was' in no way to be taken into con
sideration. Predominating opinion
lias this lo say about masculine gar
ments for spring and summer:
,1-Cuffs on the ends of trousers
shall be frowned upon, but they shall
be encouraged for coat sleeves. They
shall , be "toierated" only on soft
flannel summer trousers. Cuffs cm
winter trousers shall be tabooed.
.2 Fancy waist coats may be "rich
in color but they shall be quiet in
tone." Asked to explain .that a mem
ber said that while rich colored, small
stripes and checks would be used, the
"ensemble must be modest.'' '
3 Coat lapels must not be pressed
down hard; they shall have the soft
roll effect.
4 Trousers shall no longer be built
full about the thighs, they shall, fit not
tightly but easily. The legs shall be
bis enough in the knees for ease..
5 Suitings shall be of the striped
variety.
6 Coats as to their length shall be
medium.
7 Any tailor with a patron who
does not pay his bill shall send that
name with a full description of the
offender to the secretary of the ex
change who shall then send it to
members of the exchange all over the
country. , ;
Bearing Upon Broken Ira
munlty Contracts.
TO "TELL ALL HE KNEW"
Are to Convince the Court That
His Testimony Was Obtain
ed By Fraud.
ON "SACRED WORD OF HONOR"
Detective Burns and Elisor Biggy
Asserted "They Would Kill Anyone
Who Failed to Carry Out Any Part
of the Agreement of Immunity."
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14.-Affi-
davits bearing upon the broken im
munity contract between the prose
cution and Abe Ruef, showing from
the defendant's stand point how he
had been induced to "Tell all he
knew" upon the most positive assur
ances and guarantee that he had been
granted complete immunity, which
agreement the prosecution has de
clined to carry out were the features
today in the hearing before Judge
Lawlcr. The ajflidavits were by Ruef
himself, his father and sister, and
wuji the others already filed are to
convince the court that his testimony
before the grand jury was obtained
by fraud on the part of the prosecu
tion and were presented in support
of a motion by the defense that
Rucf's arraignment and pica be set
aside to enable him to attack the in
dictments with demurrers and mo
tions to set aside, upon constitutional
grounds, asserting that he was de
luded into not doing so before by the
promises of the prosecution that he
was not to be prosecuted, through
his father, mother, sisters and Drs.
Nieto and Kaplan, two Rabbis, and
that various members of the prosecu
tion gave him the most solemn assur
ances and pledges "On their sacred
word of honor."
Detective Burns and Elisor Biggy
went so far as to assert that "They
would kill anyone who failed to carry
out any part of the agreement of
immunity," if Ruef would disclose to
them all that he knew regarding the
bribery to which the former board of
supervisions had confessed.
When the affidavits of Rucf's fath
er and sister were being read, telling
their own suffering and that of Reuf's
mother and how they pleaded with
the defendant to save them by accept
ing assurances of the prosecu
tion," the sister asserting that Burns
had declared that he "had come to
her brother and would be his friend,"
Ruef was visibly agitated, his face
flushed and several times he placed a
handkerchief over his eyes.
DEMOCRATIC LEADER DEAD,
CHICAGO, Teb. 14,-Thomns Jef
ferson McNally, well known as
democratic leader in the First Ward
(lied of heart disease yesterday.
Mc.Nany wait born 64 years ag in
Brooklyn, N. Y., where as a boy he
worked in the navy yard carrying
rivets and was proud of the fact that
lie had a hand in building the moni
tor which destroyed the Confederate
ironclad Merriinac, He came to
Chicago in 1870. He was a represen
tative from 1882 to 1886, and had
been a member of the state central,
county and congressional democratic
committee.
OUTLAW SURROUNDED.
HELENA, Mont. Feb. 14.-Word
was received here early to-day by
Sheriff Shoemaker, that Wm. Mos-
ncy, the Indian outlaw who has elud
ed the officers for four months has
been completely surrounded in
thicket near Craig, this county. His
pursuers are afraid to close in on the
half breed because of his reputation
as a marksman. Dupty Sheriff Hay
has started for the scene.
Policemen of Helena believe the
Indian referred to is Standing White
Man, a half breed who has been ar
rested several times lately for Mos-ney.
DENVER AUDITORIUM
iSost Spacious Assembly Build
ing In the Country.
BATTLESHIPS AT VALPARAISO
VALPARAISO, , Feb. 14,-The
American fleet of battleships passed
here late this afternoon. The day was
beautiful and the spectacle of 16
great war craft forging along over
the blue water was magnificent Val
paraiso is filled with people who have
come to witness the naval review.
There is the greatest enthusiasm.
President Montt and the other high
officials of the Republic came out
from the shore to greet the battle
ships and almost the entire Chilean
navy exchanged salutes with them,
The President was on board the
training ship General Baquedano and
took a position well out in the har
bor. Around Baquedano the fleet
ISSUANCE OF
PAPEMIONEf
sale merchants said last night that
were buyers in town representing
firms which had not sent buyers to
New York in many years. Not in
20 years, he said, have there been in
New York the representatives of so
many first-class western bouses.
Lodge and Teller
Tkir Views.
Give
NOTA BANKING BUSINESS
Banks Were Certainly Unable to
do Business Without Gov
ernmental Aid.
EXTOLS FOREIGN SYSTEMS
WILL SEAT 125,00 PEOPLE
Admirably Located Being in the Cen
ter of the City and Only Few
Minutes' Walk From Union Depot
Complete in Its Appointments.
DENVER, Feb. 14.-The new audi
torium in this city which is being hur
ried to completion for the meeting of
the National Deniocratc Convention
July 7 is one of the largest buildings
of its kind jn the United States It is
larger, than Madison Square Garden
in New York which until recently was
the most spacious assembly hall in
the country. Madison Square Garden
seats 12,137 while the seating capacity
of the Denver Auditorium is 12,500.
This capacity far surpasses that of
the Mormon tabernable in Salt Lake,
the Cincinnati music hall, the Metro
politan opera house in New York
City and the Auditorium or Coliseum
in Chicago. The Chicago Auditorium
seats 5000 and the Coliseum as the
seats are arranged for the Republican
convention seats 11,111. The Denver
Auditorium is admirably located, be
ing in the center of the city, and
only a few minutes' walk from the
Union Depot, and one block from the
loop where all the cars in the city
converge. In the opinion of those
who have made a study of the large
assembly halls of the U. S. the Den
ver Auditorium in the best equipped
and most complete in its appoint
ments. ,
The building contains four and one
half million cubic feet of space which
will be lighted by 5,000 sixteen candle
power electric lights. There will be
no arch lights used in the Auditorium.
A series of 14 mammoth "cluster"
lamps in the ceiling, each having 1280
candle power and made up of, 16
candle power electric lights will pro
vide the principat illumination. One
thousand smaller lights will be placed
in various parts of the , vast hall.
There are 200 lineal feet of exits be
ing greater than for any similar build
ing in tthe U. S. These exits are so
distributed that the building can be
Teller Said When the Gold Standard
Law Waa Enacted in 1900 it Was
Supposed to be a Panacea For
All Ilia.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. -The
Senate today gave attention to the
spcechrby Clay on the Aldrich cur
rency bill. Clay's declarations in
favor of the issuance of paper money
by the government provoked a con-'
troversy between him and the Repub-
ican Senators. Lodge and Teller
both gave their views on the policy'
of issuing paper money by the gov
ernment Teller spoke briefly saying
he wanted to make it clear that the
issuing of money is not a banking
business. "It is the exercise of sov
ereign power, ne said, where would
wc have been today if we had' not
slipped in and helped the banks?
They were certainly unable to do
business without governmental aid."
"If," interposed Lodge, "we had a
system like England, France or best
of all, Germany, the banks should
have been able to meet the emer
gency." Teller said when the gold standard
law was enacted in 1900 it was sup
posed to be a panacea for all ills.
He said there was no reason why the
government should guarantee the
notes of somebody else but theory
was one thing and present necessity
another.
"The bill," he said, "is an attempt
to make a practical treatment for a
condition that may arise at any
time."
Senate adjourned until Monday.
LAST HOME OF EIDER DUCK,
At present there is bat one breed
ing place of the eider duck in the
United States; that is Old Man' f-
land situated in the town of Cutler,
Me. It is one and one-half miles
east of the Cross island life-saving
station, and was leased by the State
with the understanding that it was
to be used for the protection, propa
gation and preservation of all wild
birds. The State, through the efforts
of the Audubon Society, is trying to
preserve three species of wild fowl
the eider duck, the ouffin and th.
laughing gull from extermination in
Maine. Their eggs are lanre and
very palatable and highly prized by
fishermen for food. Kennebec "Jour
DRIFTED 16 DAYS.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14.-Af-r
many days of sufferinir in which
three died and 15 sailors went insane,
Captain Larsen and one of the crew
of the ill-fated American ship Eclips
which sank in the South Seas, Janu
ary 11, reached here this morning on
the Korea. These men with 15 other
shipmates drifted for 16 days until
they succeeded in reaching th
Hawaiian Islands.
REFUSE THE DEMAND
(Continued on page 8)
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-Ora-tory
in the House gave way to legis
lation with the result that material
progress was made" in the legis
lative, executive and judicial bill.
The first attack upon the increase in
the salaries of assistant secretaries of
the several departments was made by
Macon, who raised a point of order
against the increase of the salary pf
the assistant secretary of state.
When the proposed increase of the
salaries of the other assistants came
out, Macon object "to them and they
went out on points of order.
On a point of order by Macon, the
appropriation for the monthly pilots'
chart of the North Pacific Ocean,
published by the navy department
was stricken out. The 'bill was still
under discussion when the House ad
BUYERS IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Feb. 14.-In speak
ing of the unusually large number of
western buyers now in New York,
S. C. Mead, secretary of the Mer
chants' Association said last night:
"The registration shows that towns
have representatives buyings in New
York this season who have not visit
ed this place in two or three seasons."
This is true of Illinois, Missouri,
Oklahoma, Indian Territory and Tex
as particularly, he said The repre
sentatives of one of the largest whole
Marine Engineers Association
Insist Upon 3 Engineers.
"BQWD0IN" SAILS WITH TWO
The U. S. Inspector of Hull. a
Boilers Have Right to Designate
the Crew a' Vessel Shall Carry
Ordered 3 Engineers for Bowdoin.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb,. 14.-At a
meeting of the Marine Engineers'
Asscoiation tonight a committee em
powered to deal with the Shipowners'
Association was instructed to refuse
the demand of the owners that the
force of engineers on schooners ply
ing north of Crescent City and South
of Point Conception to carry two en
gineers instead of three as hereto
fore. The result of this action will
doubtless be a lockout of the engi
neers. The owners attempted to take
out the steam schooner Bowdoin
bound for Gray's Harbor for lumber
with two engineers.
She was delayed until tonight
when two of the members were per
mitted to take her. Her owners will
probably be arrested for violating the
law which gives the United States in
spectors of hulls and boilers a rigtt ,
to designate the crew the vessel shall
carry, ihey instructed the owners of
the Bowdoin to carry three engineers.
In spite of this the boat sailed with
but two. A test case is to be made of
the matters.
TORNADO IN MISSISSIPPI.
MERIDIAN, Miss., Feb. lThree
small Mississippi towns were prac
tically demolished by a tornado to
day. Reports of the killed range from
six to ten, with a smaller number
pioabbly correct , Mossville, Service
and Sovo are the towns destroyed.
They are all in Jones county and very
small, being merely handfuls of scat
tered dwellings. The tornado struck
them about noon and in most in
stances it is reported to have carried
biiildings in its path completely off
the lots On which they stood. Nearby
fields were covered with wreckage
and branches of trees were littered
with small household articles. The
tornado was accompanied by a ter
rific rain which caused a sudden rise
in the creeks and washed away sev
eral bridges.
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