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PUBLISHES FULL ASSOCIATED PMM REPORT
COVCRSTHE MORNING FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA
VOLUME LXHI. NO. 407
ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1908.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
RIVEftS ON
RAMPAGE
Kulo and Disaster In Their
Paths.
WATER IS STILL RISING
tit the Pittsburg District Alone thi
Damage Expected to Amount
to Several Millions.
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CHARITABLE SOCIETIES BUSY
lid.
At 10 O'clock the River Had Reached
20 Feet and Rising Half a Foot
Par Hour-Weathr Bureau Pre
view 30 Feet s.
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PUTSBURG, Feb. 15.- Spreading
ruin and diuiter in it path the an
Dual flood of the rivers and small
trtami In thli eection holdi Pitts
burg and much of the surrounding
country in iti graup tonight At 10
o'clock the river reached 26 feet ru
ing half a foot per hour. The weather
bureau predict that 30 feet by tomor
row and possibly a foot higher be
fore the crest of the flood arrive late
on Sunday .afternoon At the head
...,! the river continue to rise and
the adjacent Korea of citie and town
of Western Pennsylvania,
rti.r -...I YVeat Viralnia and partially
inundated. In the Pimburg district
i,.n. the damaue i expected to
vral million dollar. The
record flood of last year, when the
water reached a hlghtn 01 oo.
ued damage estimated at ten mil-11..-
... .nmricnt warning wa ivn
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.1,1. ar to save much property. "
I, euimated that 20,000 men are
thrown out of employment ana com
!.. i...t hU lime when the factories
are resumed operation after a period
of stagnation, much suffering will be
the result. The charitable organiza
tion are at work. 4 $ , ,
BUFFALO, Feb. IS.-BUffalo and
:Scaiaouda Creek broke thcif bank
late oday and the low lying street
of South Uutlalo are trom two to nve
feet .under water, The flood area fs
two siiare mile. Many points In
'Western New York and Northern
. Fcuifsylvttoia are under water.
EVANSV1LLE, Feb. IS. -The
'Ohio continue to rise rapidly. The
' bicreset flood in years is expected,
'.The worst .mhouts of 20 years on
' the Evansville and Indianapolis rail
way have occurred.
J WHEELING, 'W. Va,, Feb. 15.-
One thousand families wcre com
nclled to quit their .homes and go to
'higher ground, on raccount of the
flood. Hundred of merchant in the
'wholesale and retail district are
moving out of the path of the rising
water. There is. great wittering.
READING, Pa., Feb.lS-The flood
of the Schuylkill reached a height to
' night of nine feet above low water
mark when the ice broke up .without
causing any damage after which the
waters began to recede. '
RECEIVER APPOINTED.
tiEW YORK, Feb. IS. Receiver
- were aptfointer tonight for the Mu-
tual Reserve Life Insurance Co,, up
on the application of a policyholders'
committee.
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TWO HUNDRED INSPECTORS.
tliorized the employment of 200 in
snecior to visit the bulnc house
and residence of the city to enforce
the observance of the anitary law.
In all 7S0 Inspector have been en
gaged in this work. A clash occurred
in llutehertown between the federal
authorities and the owner of hog
pen, the latter refusing the govern
ment ohvaiclan free hand in tne
campaign against rats. The federal
authorities were determined that tneie
Dlace should be cleaned and gave the
owner a reasonable time to clean
up. ,
"IN COD WE TRUST" ON COINS.
WASHINGTON, Feb. iS-Repre-tentative
James, of Kentucky, appear
ed before the Houte committee on
weight! and measures today and made
an argument In support of hit bill to
restore to the United State gold coin
the word "In Cod We Trut" On
leaving the committee room James
uid le had been asiured that the
bill would be reported favorably.
PRINTERS CUT 33 PER CENT.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. Tfie
President approved the order reduc
ing the price of composition in the
itovcrnment printing office from $1.20
to 80 cent an hour for hand composi
tion, and fiom $1.80 a hour to 80
cents ter thousand ems for machine
composition1. ...... A
FLOTILLA ARRIVES.
TALLICAHUANO, Chile, Feb. IS.
The American torpedo flotilla ar
rived today.
WILL DEFY THE LAW
Womens Suffrage) Societies to
Parade on Fifth Avenue
PARADES REQUIRE PERMITS
There Is Some Nervousness at Police
Headquarters for It i Feared That
the Women May Follow Example
of Their London Sisters.
NEW YORK, Feb. lS.-The New
York police stand a fair chance of
having their first experience with the
militant suffragists tomorrow when
the Women's Suffrage Societies of the
city plan to hold a parade on Fifth
aven;ie, the line of march being from
Union Square to Central , Park. Al
though the law provides that parades
shall not be held without permits
from the police, and shall not be held
at al oii Sunday, the suffragists are
planning; to go on with their demon
stration in, spite ot the law or the
police. Women who are prominent
in the movement state that there will
be at least 10,000 women in line, al
though the police' are Inclined to
doubt that there will bcr.that many. It
is pointed out that if the women wish
to march quietly up the if feet with
out music or banners th'ey may be
allowed to proceed, but while no or
der have been Issued, it is said1 that
the police department will prevent the
use of banners and bands. There isi
some nervousness at police headquar
ters, for it is feared that the women
may follow the example of their
London sisters and refuse to obey the
orders of the police, based on man
law and resist to a point where physi
cal force will be necessary to make
them observe the regulations.
FOUR FIRES IN BUTTE.
SAN FRANCIScty Feb. lS.-The
citizens' health committee : has , ou-
BUTTE. Mont.. Feb. 15-As the
I result of four incendiary fires early
yesterlay morning in the residence
section of South Butte an indignation
meeting was held last night by the
people of that portion of the city.
The facts of the fire are too conclu-sive-
to admit of anything but incendi
arism. One woman narrowly escaped
burning to death. The loss was about
$5000.
uieinc date
TOSKrtRS
' under the city ordinances Is a mi
imcanof. It is the intention of the
city official to clean out a score of
opium den existing in Butte s Cel-
ettial quarter, and more arrest are
expected. All but two of the China
men taken into custody admit the sale
of the drug. :
Southern Pacific Railroad
to be Prosecuted.
A LIST OF 1U8 FIRMS
Railroad Commission of Califor
nia Requested t Transcript
of Report and Evidence,
PREFERENTIALRATESGdANfEO
Franklin K. Lane of the Interstate
Commerce Commissioner Made a
Visit to Pacific Coast and Unearth
ed Existence of Extensive System.
WASHINGTON. Febv IS.-Prose-
cutions are to be instituted by the
government against the Southern
Pacific Company and certain officials
of that railway organization on the
alienation they paid rebate to ship
pers. The evidence in the case was
obtained by the Interstate Commerce
Commissioner Franklin K. Lane up
on" his recent visit to the Pacific Coast.
His report of the conditions were
made oublic today, having been ap-
porved and referred to the depart
ment of justice for "Such prosecu
tions tinder the law as may be war
ranted."
At the request of the railroad com
mission of California that a transcript
report and evidence be sent the com
mission which indicated its purpose
to prosecute alleged violations of the
California laws that may be shown by
the report ,
Commissioner Lane's report! finds
"The existence of an extensive sys
tem of preferential rates granted to
certain shippers on interstate business
by the Southern Pacific Co. The rec
ord disclses a list of 108 firms, corpo
rations, and individuals, who enjoy
cnrrail inside rates."
That the refund claims amounted
ill various moBlitS of Hie year 1906
find 1907 were from $30,000 to $50,000
Der month: that one firm during tne
period from April, 1906, (the date of
the San Francisco fire, when all prev
icus records were destroyed), to Sep
fember 23, 1907, took down $23,994
and that the refunds for the same
period t-1 othc (shippers ranged from
$13,690 to $22,251; that one shipper
admitted that an allowance of such
rebates influenced traffic over the
rails of the' Southern Pacific; that
there existed for years an under
standing between' the Southern Pa
cific and the . Santa Fe and certain
shippers of dried fruits were to re
ceive a refund of one-half of the local
state rate charged at the time of the
oriignal movement; that the voucher
books show these transactions.
TRIBESMEN RAID A TOWN".
ROME, Feb. 15. A, long report
has been' received by the government
concerning the raid on the town of
Lugh, Italian' Somoliland, by tribes
men on December last. It says the
troubles had their origin in-the Ital
ian contingent rushing to the rescue
of the native population and several
British caravans which were being at
tacked by Abyssinian;
OPIUM MUST GO SAYS BUTTE.
BUTTE Mont., Feb.'' ,15."-? he' dty
officials of Butte haye a determined
campaign against the sale of opium,
every Chinese merchant, in the city
to the number of twelve haye been
arrested on the charge of trafficking
in the drug. The selling of opium
COLLISION
AT TOLEDO
INCREASE CUSTOM RECEIPTS.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. lS.-The
records of Collector Hill, of the port
of Philadelphia for the mtnth of Jan
uary show in Increase of $4,000,000
over thoe for the ame month last
vear. indicating a revival of buiness.
After the financial flurry business
fell from an everage of $100,000 a day
to a loW U 2d,60fl while the; average
has now reahd $80,000;
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AGAINST REPEAL 6F A Lkvf.
LEXINGTON, Feb. U,-Kentucky
horsemen will appeal to the New
York legislature in behalf of horse
racing. A committee of representa
tives of horsemen will ko to Albany
and appear before the legislature
Wednesday and protest against tne
repeal of the Perry-Gray law affecting
racing in New York.
CONVICTED OF MURDER.
PORTLAND, Feb. lS.-Joseph An
derson", highwayman, was tonight con
victed of the murder of Harry Logan,
enaHneCrV whom he killed while plying
his profession as a highway robber.
An appeal will be taken from the ver
dict of the jury". . ,
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ORGANIZATION COMPLETED.
WASHINGTON, Feb. lS.-The or
ganization was completed today of the
building trades department of the
American Federation of Labor. ,
TORNADO'S PATH
Seyen Killed and Twelve
Injured,
SIGNAL MISUNDERSTOOD
Big 4 Passenger Train Crashes
Into a Toledo and Western
Electric Car.
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INVESTIGATION TO BE HELD
When the Electric Car Reached the
Michigan Central Crossing Just
West of Toledo, the Big Four Pas
senger Bore Down Upon Them.
TOLEDO, Feb. 15.-Seven killed
and a dozen were injured when a Big
Four passenger train struck a Toledo
& Western electric car at the Mchigan
Central crossing just west of Toledo
tonight A misunderstanding of the
signals was the cause which will be
investigated.
was killed and he himself was badly
j injured. He was unable to continue
hi work as a manufacturer and there
fore came to New York and went into ,
thf business f peddling fruit He
roomed in a tenament house in Eliza
beth Street and was not suspected
untill a short time ago. Then four
of the Italian detective squad at head
quarters who were detailed to dis
cover, the perpetrators of a bomb out-
rag through which the front wind
ow sof an Italian bank in which $40,
000 in. money was exposed", were,
blown out .
CITRUS SHIPMENTS HEAVY.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. lS.-Citrus
shipments are surprisingly heavy and
the great crop of Southern California
is bringing unusual prices to the
growers. The harvest to date sur
passes that of last year for the same
time by 1050 carloads and only a fiftfc
of the total croo ha been n.VtrJ ft-'
particular surprise to the dtros world
s a gain in lemon shipments which
already exceed last vear tn A,tM k
300 carloads and will aggregate this
year uw carloads against 5000, the
most ever grown heretofore.
HEAVY MAIL.
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CHICAGO Feb. IS -..: v.i ..
tine made business at th r,;,
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postoflke so heavv this var that Sf
was announced yesterday the record
had been broken. For the preceding
24 hours 2.696.642 Dieees nf mail A
been handled. This exceeded the high
record of December 31 U.t .t...
2,613,837 letters and packages were
hanlded.
Cut a Wide Swath Several Miles
''";:,'; "Long. '.-.i-'v."
SEVERAL PERSONS KILLED
The Towns of Soso and Service Were
Partly Wrecked and it is Reported
That Another Small Town, Epps,
Was Badly Damaged.
MOSSVILLE, Miss,, Feb. 15-Four
whole buildings and two halves of
buildings are the only habitable
abodes in this village today. The re
mainder of tne structures were blown
dowrt'and many of them swept out
side the town by yesterday's tornado.
, " Two old negroes, Alex Windham
artd his wife are dead and Edward
Campbell; white, is probably fatally
injured.' .
. Of the" dozen other persons painful
ly hurt at this, place all are rapidly
recovering. . Reports reaching here
from Other towns"". av.the tornado's
path give not to tSc'eed five other
fatalities, only pne of which has been
confirmed. ''
The buildings left standing jure' are
two residences, a cotton gin and a
school house. The buildings which
the storm cut in two are the Gulf
and Ship Island Railroad depot and a
residence. -
The station master happened to be
in the half of the depot which was
left standing and was scarcely dis
turbed when the other half of his
habitation went down in a heap and
then flew away piecemeal. The in
habitants of Mossville claim that their
vitiate was scattered over at least
four miles of territory, this statement i
being based on the identification of a
hatchet picked up by a farmer four
miles from here as part of the stock
of the general store of the village.
The contents of this store were scat
tered over at least half a mile of
ground In the direction taken by the
wind.
Sturdy oaks were uprooted in the
main streets of the town. The tornado
also cut a swath several miles long
through the timber and almost every
ostruction on the face
AUTOMOBILE RACE ENTRIES
NEW YORK. Feb. 15.-The en
tries for the automobile race at Or
mone" will close today at the rooms
of the Automobile Club of America,
which, this year, is in charge of the
events. Eleven cars had been entered
last night and more are expected to
day. Among the cars entered are
several very speedy ones and it is
expected that some fast time will ,be
made and that in all probability re
cords will be broken. Among those
entering cars are E. R. Thomas, who
purchased the car which Elliot F.
Sheoard drove in the last Vanderbilt
Cup race; W. Gould Broker, who will
drive a car which he used in Europe
last vear: E. P. Blakeley, who will
drive the car which won the Minnea
polis 100 mile championship race last
year, R. C Kelsey and others. .
ROME, Feb. lS.-The Italian Gov
ernment has decided to buy the rich
Barberine Collection of Etruscan
antiquities which recently was bought
by Signor Volpi who offered to give
the Government two-fifths of the
whole collection if It would permit
him ts sell the. remainder at jniblic.
auction with the right of exportation,
The. .collection contains bronzes, an
cient ewelry, ivories, precious stones
and rkh carvings. It is valued at
millions of dollars. .4.
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other
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MEN HAVE NARROW ESCAPE.
GRASS VALLEY, Cal , Feb. 15.-
Twenty-five men narrowly escaped be
ing suffocated today in the Brunswick
mine near here. A fire, coupled with
dense smoke and generated gases,
overcame the men who were removed
with difficulty. A numbef of those
hoisted to the surface Were uncon
scious. William Bawden.Jhe hero of
the camp, tonight made seven trips
through the heavy smoke and assisted
in bringing every man out. i'
ITALIAN BOMB MAKER,
NEW YORK, Feb. 15. In the per
son of Vincenzo Calderone, who was
arrested last night, the members of
the Italian detective squad believes
they have captured the man who
made the bombs used in many, if not
all the recent "black hand" outrages
in New York. Calderone was form
erly a manufacturer of fireworks at
Maspeth, L I. ,but four years ago his
little factory was blown up, his wife
CAPITAL AND LABOR
Taff s Theme at a Gathering in
Hartferd.
ENDORSED BIGGER ISSUES
If Capital Finds it Advisable to Or-
ganize That Labor Had an Equal
Right to do the Same, But That
Violators be Punished,
HARTFORD, Feb. 15. -Secretary
Taft made two addresses in this city
this evening. At both gathering he
received a rousing welcome. Taft
eudoned oil the bigger issues m Mc,
Kinley and Roosevelt administrations
including expansion on which he
spoke at length. After he discussed
quite emphatically the relations of
capital and labor stating that if capital
found it advisable to organize that
labor had an equal right to do the
,s?m5 bt that violations of labor be
punished Just as severely and as cer
tainly as misdoings of capital.
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IRSIH ACTORS HERE.
new:. ioiCixrv
numbers of the Irish National The
ater Company of Dublin arrived id
New York yesterday and next week
will begin presenting a series of Irish
one act plays at the Savov ThMtr.
their performance preceding that of
"Twenty Days in the Shade," a
comedy which is now running th
The company is supported by the
insn national Theatre Society which
has the backing of those who are
working for a revival of Irish Lit
erature. The plays which the com
pany present are lartrelv from th
pen of Wm. Butler Yeats and most
of them are in act form. The first
one to be given in New York will be
"A Port of Broth," a one act comedy.
SECOND DEGREE OF MURDER.
THE DALLES, Ore., Feb. 15.-
Guilty of murder in the second de
gree was the verdict tonight by the
jury in the Bonomi Gosson murder
case. Gosson killed Bonomi during
last summer..,
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