Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 1908)
1 onittui PUIUtHKS FULL AttOCtATCO PRESS REPORT COVERS THE MORNING FIELO ONTHC LOWER COLUMBIA VOLUME LXIII. NO, 409 FIERCE STORM RAGES EAST Chicago Tied Up in Heary w Blizzard. WORST IN MANY YEARS Fourteen Inches of Snow In Omaha and Still Snow- ' Ing. v WITH BAROMETER FALLING Western Missouri ind Knui In Icy Clasp-Storm General Throughout Middle States Great Deal ol Suf fering Reported. KANSAS CITY, Feb, 18,-The tmowMorm that prevailed all day in Kansas and Western Missouri itill prevail but without low tempera ture!. In Kansas City the snowfall up to 9 o'clock wai about one Inch and a half hut m Southern ana urn trul Kansas obout four inche have OMAHA, Feb. 18, -Following the continuous fall of now lasting i hour accompanied by a wind which heaped it into drifts and almost tied up all ktirtU of Mrcrt traffic, the nur cury hegah a downward course this evening All trains lire laic. Nearly 14 inchci of snow fell, the heaviest in 20 years. There was a heavy run uf livestock ul the yards today and much suffering from the Morm re sulted. CHICAGO, Feb. l&Thc most violent storm that has visited Chicago in many year commenced thw morn ing and tonight H'" r:,K'nK wi,h increasing violence with no prospect of lessening it violence before morn ing. y 4 o'clock this afternoon t.cven inches of snow had fallen. The wind frequently blew 50 miles an hour and hurled snow through , the street in Mich blinding clouds that it was impossible to sec a greater distance than half a square. A great number of accidents of minor char acter were caused by collisions of vehicles, At 5 o'clock this evening when (lie home-going crowds were thickest, the wind browing the snow in such blinding sheets that it was positively dangerous to attempt to cross Michigan avenue at either Jackson or Van Uurcit streets. It was found necessary to station a large number of police at these corn er and often it was more than one officer could do to pilot a woman across the street without assistance, It was otit of the question for n woman to cross the street by herself. Early in the day the car lines fared well, but later the snow made des perate work for them. Every avail able man and all plows were constant ly at work. In the suburbs the trolley lines were operated with difficulty on account of drifts. POINT OP VIEW. JAPS AT VICTORIA. VICTORIA, B. C., Feb. 18,-The arrival of the steamer Tosa Maru to morrow with 88 Japanese will be the occasion of the first enforcement here of the natal act. Dr. Milne, the fecf eral officer, says he will not order the deportation of any except those who do not meet the requirements of the Dominion regulations. Interesting developments are ex pected as the steamship agents will probably endeavor to land the Jap anese passenger by the federal offi cers. Despite the action of the pro vincial officials who have not the power to deal with a steamer with out federal sanction, Bryan it a Dollar Dinner Speaks to Twenty-five Hundred People. COLUM BUS, Feb. ia - William Jennings Bryan's vii.it to Columbus today wai signalized by the Demo cratlc state central committee unani mously indorsing his candidacy for thcPrcsidcncy. The committee made a provision in the call for the state convention by which voters of any county in which is i registration city may cxpreis preference for the Prest dential candidate by haying names of candidate printed on delegate tickets. This action wai taken at the request of the Hamilton county Democrats who favor nomination of ex-Aitorney-Cencral Harmon. Af ter luncheon Bryan addressed the general assembly in joint ascuion in the hall of representatives on the sub ject of guaranteeing bank deposits. Tonight Bryan was the sole speak er at the dollar dinner given under the auspices of the Democratic mem bers of the general assembly. Twelve hundred persons were seated at the tables and twice that number had seats in the galleries. Bryan's speech was the "Point of view." OPPOSITION TO ALDRICH BILL WASHINGTON', Feb, ia-The Aldrich currency bill was opposed in the scnute today by Stone of Mis souri, During Stone's argument In advocacy of the plan for the govern ment guarantees of deposits in na tional banks, Bacon took occasion to oppose the proposition. Bacon de dared If "such a plan was put into effect the state banks would be put out of business as their deposits would find their way into the national bank. A bill to revise the criminal code was considered- for a couple of hours this afternoon. ASTORIA, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1908. . v- - PRICE FIVE CENTS RUEFUL FAIi LllSTANT v 1 Motion to Vacate His Ar raignment. WOULDN'T BE PLEASANT 1 , Ach to Place on the Stand Those Who Refused to Make Affidavits. INVOLVES THE CREDIBILITY ROUND THE' CIRCLE Tart's Busy Afternoon Granite State. in the RECEPTIONS AND SPEECHES He Arrived From Boston Just Before Noon Having Been Conducted from Boston by a Committee of the Taft Club of Concord. CONCORD. Feb. 18.-A reception by Governor Lloyd; a reception at the F.aglc Hotel; a luncheon by the Taft association of New Hampshire; n mass meeting and speech in Phoe nix Hall; a reception by the Derry field Club and a mass meeting at Manchester; a reception at the Calu met Club; a brief speech at the Ar mory before the national guard and Spanish war veterans; a public mass meeting and 4 clift 'Mechanics' l lull. This was flic manner in which Secretary Taft speht the afternoon and evening in New Hampshire. He arrived here from Boston just before noon, having been conducted from Boston by a committee of the Taft Club of Concord' which met him there, , SUIT TO RECOVER $300,000. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18 Suit was brought yesterday against the Woodruff Company, constructing en gineers, demanding $300,000 damage by the Edward Barron Estate Com pany. The trouble originated over the erection of the six-story hotel building at Taylor and Geary streets. TEAMS TO DEBATE. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb, 18.-Ac- cording to advices from the, north de bating team of the University of Washington will meet the California University team at Seattle, April 17. Teams are to be limited to two men instead of three as usual. Of Some of the Peraoni Connected With This Matter Alluded to the Statement of Heney and Langdon Made on Rostrum. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. lS.-With the immense amount of evidence al ready in on what is merely a pre liminary hearing on the motion to vacate his arraignment and the prose cution yet to be heard from, the actual trial of Abraham Rucf seems far distant. Ach, Rucf's leading counsel. finished his argument this afternoon, and Judge Lawler gave Murphy, Ach's associate, an hour to present his views in the morning. One day more will be allowed to Ach to get in addi tional affidavits from Rabbis Nieto and Kaplan. This will be followed by llie counter affidavits of the prosecu tion, Ach today gave notice that he would insist upon placing on the stand those wjio refused to make affi davits, mentioning Judge Dunne, Judge Lawler, Langdon, Bums, Heney and Biggy. "It won't be a pleasant investigation I can assure your honor, and it will involve the credibility of some of the persons connected with this matter," said Ach, after alluding to the state ments of Heney and Langdon made on the rostrum during the municipal campaign, that Rucf was not to be granted immunity, when all the time tlicy were a parly to a solemn agree ment that he was not to be prosecuted. OWNERS' ULTIMATUM. Must be Rescinded Within 48 Hours on Engineer! Will be Called Out SAN FRANCISCO, Feb, 18,-FoI lowing the communication from the owners' association received today which in effect states that while it is not intending to lower wages, they hereafter will not abide by the rules laid down by the engineers' associa tion, the latter association has notified the owners that after 48 hours from midnight tonight they will refuse to permit any member of the association working on steamer schooners unless the owners' ultimatum is rescinded. 5000 BUYERS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Feb. 18.-The steady inflow of buyers from the west and south which began a week or more ago, is constantly increasing and day by day hundreds more are added to the already large army of them in New York. It is now estimated that there are neifrly 5000 of them in New York, each one with orders for large quantities of goods of every descrip tion for the spring and summer trades. In almost every case the buyers are enthusiastic over the prospects of business for the future. They say that the financial depression of last fall has passed away and that there are nothing but good times in sight. It is estimated that these buyers will spend more than $100,000,000 , with New York jobbers within the next few weeks, ADDRESS NOT KNOWN. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 18,-Sergeant Pierre Compton, who is wanted by the military authorities at Jefferson barracks for selling government prop erty is in reality. Paul B. Crapsey, son of Algernon S. Crapsey, an Episco pal minister, found guilty of heresy and dismissed from his charge at Rochester, N. Y., according to a statement made today . by the ser geant's' wife. The woman says she does not know Compton's present whereabouts. Dr. Crapsey's contro versy has now become famous. LOCATION OF AUTO RACERS. TOLEDO, Feb. 18,-The American1 car' driven by Roberts in the New York-Paris tour' arrived here at 9:30 tonight. The French car stopped at I'rcmont, The French car which was drievn by St. Shaffray was but a few hours behind the American car all day. The American car will enter Indiana in the morning and the French car in the afternoon. The Italian car, Siroiri driver, arrived at Cleveland tonight. The German car, Mass driver, remained at Erie. L AND GRANTS II SD PRACTICE TIME. Oregon Railroads Violated Terms of Grant. DEPARTMENT IS READY MURDER AND SUICIDE. DENVER. Feb. 18.-Oscar Kirby, son of a Colorado Springs grocer, shot his bride of a few months early this morning and killed himself with the same weapon. The tragedy oc curred at the house of his parents. The bullet struck the woman in the back and she was removed to the county hospital in a dying condition. She cannot live. The couple had liv ed apart since-the week after the marriage. " Chicago's Annual Income From Street Railways. OVER A MILLION AND A HALF The Statement of the President of the City Company Showed That the Company Could Pay 55 Per Cent of Its Net Earnings. CHICAGO, Feb. 18.-The City of Chicago will get $633,831 as its share of the net earnings of the city rail way company for the last eleven months of last year. This is comput ed by the company to mean $675,000 for a full year. Figures on the accepted basis that the Chicago City Railway will fur nish two fifths and the Chicago Rail ways Company three fifths of what the city will get altogether from the traction companies this means a total of $1,687,000 as the city's annual in come from the two traction com panies, under the new ordinances. President Thomas E. -Mitten of the City Company made the first state ment to his stockholders at the an nual meeting of the company yester day since the new ordinance. It showed the company could pay 55 ner cent of its net earnings to the city and still make plenty of money. The report showed that the company had earned from all sources $1,916,- 558 net or 10.64 per cent on the par value of the stock. ' That it had paid out $1,215,000 in dividends, nutting the stock at 9 per cent basis and setting aside $701,558 for the surplus fund. That $7,168,980 had been added to the value of the. property by im provements, most of which had been paid for by bonds, the interest on which had been paid from the operat ing expense account as provided, by ordinance. . That the total passenger earnings for the full year were $8,087,000, or an increase of 4.1 per cent. Authority Wanted id Remove Possibility of Legality of Proceedings. RESOLUTION NOT NECESSARY "This Question," Said Hey burn, "In volves Millions oi Acres Worth Millions of Dollars" Same Condi- tions Hai Existed For 40 Years. WASHINGTON, Feb. 18-Senator Fulotn today reported to the Senate from the judiciary committee a joint resolution directing the attorney general to prosecute the land grant railroads in Oregon for not having complied with the terms of their grants and disposing of the lands in their grants in tracts of not more than 160 acres at not more than $2.50 per acre. A resolution drawn by the de partment of justice to remove any doubt as to its authority to proceed was agreed as a substitute for the one recently offered by Tillman. The resolution was generally dis cussed, the only object being urged against it was that the attorney-gen eral is now empowered by law to do all that the resolution seeks to have done. Fulton stated that the depart ment was now ready to proceed and merely wanted the authority of Con gress to remove any possible question of legality of' the proceedings. The resoutlion also applies to the grant made for the construction of a tele graph line from Portland to Ontario and McMinnville. Fulton, said there is no question that the roads had vio lated the terms of these grants as violation had been admitted before the sub-committee. Tillamn explain ed that he introduced the original prosecution in view of what he had learned while on a recent visit to the coast. He said he was satisfied the railroads were now holding lands from settlement worth millions of dollars. Forakcr questioned the pro priety and necessity of passing such a resolution. Fulton did not believe the resolu tion necessary but the attorney-general wanted it and he thought it should be passed. Heyburn said the same conditions referred to in the resolution exist in all land grant states although Oregon only is re ferred to in the resolution. For 40 years, he said,, the railroads had re fused to comply with the terms of these grants. "This question," he added, "In-J volves millions of acres worth hun-j dreds of millions of dollars." In reply to a question by Dixon, Heyburn said he thought the same limitation existed in the Northern Pa cific land grant, but Dixon, Fulton and Nelson disagreed with him. Bate BaU Players Gathering to go South to Practice. ' NEW YORK, Feb. 18.-Seven players of the New York National League Base ball team are on their way to join Manager McGraw at Marlins Spring according to Seer?- tary Fred Knowles Bresnahan, Mer klc and Beecher have left Toledo for the South. Herzog, third baseman, O'Brien, outfielder, and Mc Kinney and Malarky, pitchers, are on their way from other points. The next batch of players will leave this cit v on the steamer Momus for New Or leans and the final contingent will start from St. Louis, Mar, 1, Those who will make the trin Imm VV York are Mathewson, Donlin, Devlin, Lynch, Wiltse, Tenney and Hannifan. CANNOT OWN SALOONS. CHICAGO. Feb. 18.-A desnatrk to the Record-Herald from Des Moines, la., says: Attorney-General Byers rendered an opinion yesterday to the executive council that saloons cannot lawfully be owned or controlled by corpora tions, including breweries. Half of the saloons in Iowa are controlled by breweries, and this opinion will ' force the saloon business to be car ried on by individuals who will be personally responsible for all liabili ties incurred. Under the decision prosecutions may be broughl against saloons operated by breweries instead of individuals, if within a reasonable time the property is not transferred. BOXER LEADER DEAD. SHANGHAI, Feb. 18.- General Tung Fuh Siang, leader of the Boxer uprising of 1900, is dead. TRAIN GOES iN DITCH Engine Alone Stays Broken Track. on the CAUSED BY A BROKEN RAIL Conductor Badly Cut and Bruised and Number of Passengers Badly Shaken up But no One Was Ser iously Injured in the Wreck. SPOKANE, Feb. ia-A special to the Spokesman Review from Sand Point, Idaho, says that the Burlington passenger train on the Northern Pa cific was wrecked at Cocolalla, 14 miles west of here at 3:50 this morn ing.. The rails spread letting the en tire train with the exception of the engine and baggage car go into the ditch. The track runs parallel with the lake shore and the cars were left hanging over the bank and all but in the water. The people were thrown 1 into the aisles by the jar and all were more or less shaken up. The passengers were taken to Spokane. The conductor was badly cut and bruised and some of the passengers received severe bumps but no bones were broken. MONSTER PETITION. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 18. The Picayune says today: A monster petition to the Mississ ippi legislature is being prepared by employes of railroads that state in opposition to the proposition before the legislature to enact a two cent passenger rate law. The employes are afraid that any further reduction in the earnings of the roads will cause reduction in salaries. C. W. AINSWORTH DEAD. NEW YORK, Feb. 18,-Col Clin ton W. Ainsworth, 68 years of age, owner and editor of the ,Oak Park, 111., Report Argus, and well known throughout the United States in state reformator work, died last night. His death was the result of blood poison ing which developed in a fracture of the right ankle. This injury was sus tained November 30 when he slipped on the ice. Col, Ainsworth was born in St. Lawerence County, New York. He was employed in difienrent state instituations for 35 years, his last post being at Plankinton, S. D. where he remainedten years as superintendent.