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PUIUSHKS FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT
COVERS THE MORNING FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA
VOLUME LXM. NO. 408
ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY .18, 1908.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
EMILY REED
SURVIVORS
Three Come Ashore Near
Tatoosh.
DRIFTED IN OPEN BOA
BoatThat Was Supposed to Have
Been Lost Covers About
200 Miles.
COOK DIES FROM EXPOSURE
First Officer Dublc and Seamen Ar
thur Jantuke and Eauld Alive When
Boat Reacbtt Short-Cook Dlaa
" Day Before Land ia Reached.
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, Feb.
17. Firat Mate Duble, Seaman Ar
thur Jantuke and Seaman Eauld
Abelstedt and the dead body of the
cook, o! the wrecked wooden ahip
Emily Reed, came ashore lat night
near Neah Bay, on the StralU, a ihort
distance from Tatooh lighthouse.
Ths unexpected survival of three of.
the men who have been counted
among the lout since Friday morning
reduces the Emily Reed death roll to
eight. The cook was alive until yes
terday,' when he died from exposure
atnd lack of food.
These survivors put off from the
Emily Reed shortly before the ship
grounded, and their open life boat
was reported swamped . by Captain
KetseL Instead of being drowned,
however, they managed to get away
through the darkness and the storm
and started rowing north.
It is nearly 200 miles from Nehalem
beach to Neah Bay, and these men
made the trip in the small boat with
out water, provisions or rest. The
three remaining alive are exhausted,
but will recover. ,
They were almost blown ashore off
the Washington coast. .,.,
!.The revenue cutter, which is sta
tioned here to render quick aid to
mariners in distress along the, coast
of Washington, is steaming up for
the run to Neah Bay.
' SEATTLE, . Feb. 17.-A . dispatch
from Neah Bay says:
The cook died in the boat at 3 a. m.
on the 16th of exposure. As the men
wcr eonly partly clothed, It was very
hard for them to endure the ex
posure.' " : ' " '
Mate Dubie received a broken arm
fcv the wrcckaKC. The survivors will
probably all recover. Dr. Wood Is
attending them, but they are all very
walk. k
Today the men received the first
food and. water they had had since
Thursdav nicht.
. Half a mile aouth of the mouth of
the Nehalem River, the point at which
the Emily Reed was wrecked, to
Tatoosh Island to approximately 17S
mllM In & direct route. The course
taken by the small boat containing
the survivors would zigzag more or
less, owing to the vagaries of the
wind, which would lengthen the dist
ance actually covered to more than
200 miles. ' ".Vi -' '
- Heavy swells were running and It
would have been equivalent tosuf
clde for the occupants of the boat to
attempt to reach . shore along the
Oregon or Washington coasts. Their
craft would have been swamped In
the breakers and all would have been
drowned. 1 - ,.
" During the past four days the gen
- eral trend of the wind has been from
rthe southeast and would have carried
the frail craft north and far offshore
had she not been properly managed.
Off the Oregon coast Friday and
Saturday the wind was sweeping
along in the course indicated at from
12 to 52 miles an hour, according to
tin official records- It had mean
velocity of about 38 miles an hour
most of the time. '
. Besides, there is a strong current
running north, which does not set In
toward shore until well up along the
Washington coast. Gas buoys get
ting adrift at the mouth of the Co
lumbia River have shown the speed
of the current to be little short of
phenomenal A couple of years ago
buoy drifted from Cray's Harbor to
Vancouver in less than three days.
Always cold, winter or summer, it
Is regarded at little less than miracu
lous how tba tars succeeded' In mak
ing the run up tba coast in an open
boat without mora fatalities occur
ring. ,'- v l i
SEATTLE, Feb. 17.-A special to
the , Post-Jotelligencer, from Neah
Bay, says: '
At about 11 o'clock last night the
crew of the little six-ton sloop Teckla
which arrived at Neah Bay today
were startled by a feeble hail from a
lifeboat In the boat were the forms of
four men, three living and one dead,
survivors of the American ahip Emily
Reed, wrecked off the mouth of the
Nehalem river, 200 miles from Neah
Bay. The dead man was the ship's
cook. The three survivors are in
pitiable condition. Their tongues
were swollen from thirst so that at
first they could scarcely articulate.
All three are in a terrible condition
from hunger and thirst for they had
' (Continued'on page 8.)
IS DBS
VERITABLE
W SCARE
The Situation Is Taken
Seriously.
NOT PREPARED FOR WAR
Alarm at the Reports From Si
beria That Troopt Are Mov
: ing Southwest
POSSIBILITY OF HOSTILITIES
M. Gutchkoff Intenda to Interpellate
the Minister of Communications on
Ability of Railroads to Transport
Troops Quickly to the Frontier.
The Merchants National Again
Open for Business.
DEPOSITS EN0RM0USLYLARGE
It Had One Million in Cold When it
Reopened-Only 838,000 Was With
drawn and That by Depositors
Whose Balance Was About 8100.
PORTLAND, Feb. 17. With ex
cess of deposits and a clearance bab
ances amounting to $558,000 over
withdrawals, representing the largest
actual cash business, in the belief of
Bank Examiner Wilson, that was
ever transacted by a bank north of
San Francisco and west of Denver,
the Merchants' National Bank of this
city, re-opened its doors for business
today after having been closed eleven
weeks today. When it re-opened It
had over $1,000,000 in gold on hand,
this amount being about $300,000 in
excess ot demand liabilities, i at
money withdrawn today amounted to
$38,000 and represented depositors of
sums for the most part of Jess than
$100. i ..:
BLIND STAGGERS CAUSES'
HAVOC
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 17.
Alarm at reports of the possibilities
ot hostilities between Russia and
Turkey have assumed the proportions
of veritable war acare to which the
sensational press is devoting its big
gest headlines. The situation is tak
en aeriously not only in military
circles but also by conservative
politicians. M. Gutchkoff, the leader
ofj the majority in the Duma, an
nounces his intention of raising at the
next meeting of the commission of
national defense the question of the
country's prepardnesa for war.
He also Intends to interpolate the
minister of communications on the
ability of the railroads in the Cau
casus and trans-Caucasus to trans
port troops quickly to the southern
frontiers. M. Khvostchinsky, vice
president of the commission also
thinks the situation grave' and takes
issue sharply with a number of gen
erals who appeared before the com
mission and said the possibility of
hostilities this year is precluded.
The general staff continues to give
the situation the most serious con
sideration. Although no reports have
been received here regarding the
movements of troops in the interior
persons arriving from Siberia state
that for months past there has been
art unbroken movement of troops to
the southwest in the direction of the
trans-Cashian district and Turkestan,
from which they could be easily con
centrated on the Turkish frontier.
Tiflis advices to the Associated Press
are that preparations are steadily
making for any eventuality. Compet
ent opinion, however, takes an opti
mistic view. The ambassador of the
five leading countries when interview
ed today declared that war was out
of the question, their idea being that
the actions of Turkey and Russia are
parts of a "gigantic game of bluff."
Governor Hughes for the presidency
and prophesises of his election were
made by the speakers tonight at the
formal notification of general Stewart
L Woodford of his selection as pre
sident of the Hughes league of the
United States. The members of the
notification committee and members
of the; Hughes League from many
parts of the country were present. In
accepting the leadership of the
Hughes League, Woodford character
ized the political situation as serious
and declared that the "Democratic
party was hungry with long fasting,
and will do their best to get together
and win the coming election."
FATHER'S SACRIFICE FOR SON
NEW YORK, Feb. 17.-Warren L
Dawbarn, a princeton student and
athlete -it recovering from a serious
operation at his home there, thanks to
the sacrifice of squares inches of akin
which his father, Dr. Robert H. M.
Dawbarn made two weeks ago. The
young man was operated on some
time ago for appendicitis but gan
grene set in and before it could be
stopped all the skin for a distance
around the incision made by the sur
geons was gone. The skin did not
grow again. Dr. Dawbarn, decided
that skin grafting was necessary ad
ministered an anaesthetic to his son,
cut the skin in strips from his own
thigh and transferred it to the wound
on bis son's body. The skin grew
steadily and the young man is now
almost well. Dr. Dowbarn has not
yet told his son of his sacrifice and
refuses to discuss the matter further
than to say than the operation was
simple one. '
C, 17. MORI
INDICTED
Legal Entanglements Are
. Multiplying.
CHARGE OF LARCENY
Counsel for Morse Served With
Summonses In Two Actions
Brought Against Banks.
BOOKS UNDER PAPAL BAN,
NEW YORK, Feb.l7.-Crazed by
an attack of "blind staggers" a street
railway horse plunged into Michael
Samelhe cafe and restaurant on East
Houston Street yesterday, and before! the clergy and laiety, under penalty
PARIS, Feb. ! 17.-The Archbishop
of Paris has issued a decree condem
ining the last two works of Abbe Lois
"Synoptic gospels" and his reply to
the papal encyclical against modern
ism in the faith. The decree forbids
he was caught and shot, injured half
a dozen people, one possibly fatally.
The interior of the place was wrecked
and there was a " panic among the
numerous patrons seated at the tables.
In the confusion several were knock
ed down and injured. The most ser
iously hurt were Aaron Risener, 70
years old, who was passing the cafe
whe,n the horse charged the storm
door.' He was knocked to the pave
ment, seriously bruised and Injured
internally to such an extent that he
was unconscious when taken to Bel
levue hospital.
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of special papal excommunication
from readme, keeping printing or
defending such books.
In an interview Abbe Lois declared
he would continue the work.1 He had
no Intention, he said to create a rev'
olution in the church but merely
wished to instruct the clergy, whose
education was that of the seventeenth
century,
HUGHES' CANDIDACY.
NEW YORK, Feb. 17. Declara
tions of support of the candidacy of
COLLIERY
ACCIDENT
Twenty-Eight Men Entomed by
Breaking Dam.
HOPES OF RESCUE STRONG
The Rescuers Worked All Day and
Could Hear the Men Digging for
Their Lives Seven of the Impris
oned Men Are Americans.
FOTTSVILLE. Pa., Feb. 17.-
Twenty-eight miners were imprison
ed in a colliery, near Mount Carmet,
today by the breaking of a dam which
allowed mud to rush into the gang
way where the men were at work. All
day long the party of rescuers en
deavored to reach the entombed men
and shortly after six o'clock tonight
they were encouraged by sounds of
diggnig from the inside. Later a
shot was heard, indicating that the
men were at work to effect their own
escape and that the air is good. It
is expected that all will be rescued
unless some have met death by be
ing smothered when the dam broke.
Seven of the miners are Americans.
JAPS AT VANCOUVER. ;
V
OTTAWA, Feb. 17.-The Japanese
Counsul in inquired at the department
today as to the truth of the report
from Vancouver about the arrest of
two Japanese under the Nation Act.
The Justice department had no infor
mation but its .officers on the Pacific
coast have instructions to test every
case by habeas corpus or otherwise
so as to permit the Japanese to land
As soon as an official copy of the act
arrives it will be disallowed.
frontier to punish the Zakkakels, a
powerful tribe of Afridas who have
been raiding villages in that territory,
surprised the tribesmen by a rapid
advance and after a skirmish seized
their strongest position on a hill
above Walat The British had one
man killed and one wounded. The
troops will continue their advance
against the tribe.
CANAL SUIT DISMISSED.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17,-
Judge Van Fleet dismissed the suit
of the Bellihgham Bay Company
against the United States and Pan
ama Canal Commission in the United
States circuit court today on account
of the insufficiency of the complaint
The suit was originally brought to
recover damage done on lumber ship
ped to Panama for the canal commis
sion and which was not unloaded as
rapidly at was agreed on.
THIRD CHARGE OF PERJURY
Thomas Testified to Having Secured
a Loan of $50,000 from Bank Be
fore the Grand Jury Morse De
clared no Such Loan Was Made,
NEW YORK, Feb. 17.-The legal
entanglements of Charles W. Morse
are multiplying. The third indict
ment alleging perjury by Morse dur
ing the examination before the grand
jury was found by a special grand
jury today, a, short time after he ap
peared in court to answer to two in
dictments found against him last
week,, charging him with grand lar
ceny. Arrangements were made to
night to have him appear tomorrow
before Judge Dowling to plea to the
perjury indictments. Another turn of
the case today was the serving on
Philip J. Britt, counsel for Morse,' of
summonses in two actions brought
against the former banks. Com-1
plaints in these suits have not yet
been filed, but it was explained that
they relate to stock transactions
which occurred some time ago. When
arraigned before Judge . Dowling,
Morse stated not guilty.
Judge Dowling set Monday as the
day for the hearing. The perjury in
dictment, it was learned, grows out
of a loan obtained last September by
E. R. Thomas from the bank of North
America of which Morse was vice
president Thomas testified to having
secured loans, of $50,000. form the
bank before the grand jury. Later
Morse declared no such loan had
been made. Thomas was re-called
and it is alleged showed a letter in
which Morse recommended the mak
ing of loans.
The. day following, Thomas,, last
testimony, Morse appeared before the
grand jury and asked leave to cor
rect his testimony,' and what he told
is alleged to have squared with the
testimony given by Thomas. It is
pointed out however that the Law is
that such corrected testimony may be
made the basis for a charge of per
jury. -; '., v ,; :;l '
RIVERS STILL RISING.
INDIANOFOLIS, Feb. 17.-The
White and Wabash rivers took a sud
den secendary boom today, giving the
flood situation near Hazleton a more
alarming aspect From Petersburg
Ind. to the junction of the Main
stream of the White River with the
Wabash, the water is running from
five to ten miles wide. Families in
many places in Southern, Indiana are
being driven to places of safety.
.ELECT OFFICERS.
HELENA, Feb. 17.-The Montana
Mining Association tonight perfected
permanent origanization by the elec
tion of officers as follows: M. L.
Hewitt, Basin, president: Thomas L.
Greenough, Missoula, . vice-president:
L. B. Linderman, Helena, secretary:
R. A. Bell, Helena, treasurer.
COULD IT AGREE
Jury in the Snell Will Case
Disagree.
AUTOMOBILE TRACK.
NEW YORK, Feb. 17.-Engineers
have been at work recently on a 1000
acre track well out on Long Island,
which, it was stated yesterday, has
becnqttitely parcled and is being laid
out in an "8", shape course over
which the next Vanderbilt automobile
cup race is to be run. As soon as the
frost is out of the ground work will
be started upon the course and the
automobile parkway that will lead up
to it from this city will be begun.
JUMPS FROM MOVING TRAIN.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17, In
view of scores of passengers, a pris
oner, Edw. J. Ely en route from Los
Angeles to San Quentin to serve six
months for burglarizing Southern
Pacific box cars made a sensational
escape from Sheriff Wilson of River
side County yesterday by leaping
head formost through the window of
a fast moving Southern Pacific train.
The escape was made near Lancaster
in Los Angeles county. ,
The prisoner, who was badly, in
juied, escaped, although the train was
stopped while the sheriff, assisted by
passengers, made an active search for
him.
SON CONTESTED THE WILL
The Trial Has Been Sensational
Snell Was Willing to Pay Lavishly
For Being Loved and Being Told so
in Extravagantly Worded Letters.
CLINTON, Hi, Feb. 17.-The jury
in the $2,000,000 will case of Snell,
was discharged by Judge Cochran
today being unable to reach a verdict
Richard Snell, the contestant, an
nounced that he will ask a new trial
at the May term of court The last
ballot stood eight for the contestant
and four for the beneficiaries of the
will. The jury has been out since
Sunday. The trial has been rife with
sensations, chief of which were "Snell
letters'' written by women and young
girls to the old man who was willing
to pay lavishly for being loved and
for being told so in extravagantly
worded epistles. Snell cut his imme
diate family off with small sums, and
left practically his entire estate to
his youngest grand child. Richard
Snell, the son, contested the will on
the grounds that his father was in
sane about women.
EXECUTIVE SESSION.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-After a
brief legislative session today the
senate ordered the doors closed and
for several hours discussed the
Witherspoon nomination. During the
executive session an agreement was
reached to consider the ocean mail
subsidy bill Wednesday and senator
Stone announced that he would
speak upon the Aldrich currency bill
tomorrow.
TROOPS AFTER RAIDERS.
PESHAWUR, BRITISH INDIA,
Feb. 17. The British expedition
under Maj. Gen. Sir James Wilcox
sent out by. the government to the
Bazaar valley on the northwestern
TAFT AT NEW HAVEN.
NEW HAVEN, Feb. .-Secretary
Taft, chief guest and speaker at
the Lincoln day banquet of the young
men's republican club here t onight
and received an enthusiastic reception
from one of the larger public gather
ings ever assemble in this city.