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33rd YEAR. NO. 61
COVERS THC MORNING FIELD ON THE LOWCB COLUMBIA
ASTORIA, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1908
PRICE FIVE CENTS
TIES TO BE
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SUNG
III
Evelyn Thaw Applies for
y a Divorce.
HUSBAND WAS INSANE
Papers Will Be Served Tomor
row and an Early Trial
Is Expected.
SHE STOOD BY HIM AT TRIAL
It Wit Pretty Generally Believed
Thtt Whatever the Outcome, the
Two Would Never Live Together
Agiln-Dlvorce Telk Wee Common
occured Sunday at l'iermont, N. Y.
wait the rcnult of (right over a "black
Imnd" letter which alio picked up at
the .doorstep of her home Feb. 20.
The letter was nddreMcd to Henri
Schuster, landlord of the hmite in
which he reufded with her parents.
Ill lurid wording, spelled out by the
child was enough to cause the highly
strung young girl to go into hystcr
ici ,I''rm that time until she died
the was in a state of fear and excite
ment that puzzled the attending phy
qucntly screamed and cried with ter
ror over the evil the believed to
menace her. Her one thought wai
that the "black hand" wai after her
life. Endeavoring to divert her mind
and surround the child with new
associations, Mr. Seamaoi moved hit
family to the neighboring village of
Sparkville. Thie, however, resulted
in no change in her condition. The
father wai arranging to move to
Brooklyn when the end eame.
WILL CO TO JURY TODAY.
DENER, March lO.-The prosecu
tion in the case of Giuseppe Alia,
charged with the murder of Father
Leo, has nearly completed the pres
entation of its evidence today and the
fate of the defendant will probably
rest in the hands of the jury by to
morrow night The developments to
day showed that of 80 or more per
sons in the church when the shot was
Tired, but two saw the shot fired.
NEW YORK, March 10,-Evclyn
Nesbit Thaw will institute proceed
ings for the annulment of her mar
riage to Harry K. Thaw. The action
will be based on the allegation that
the defendant was insane when the
union was contracted Thaw purposes
to defend the suit The papers in the
case be served sometime tomorrow
and ait early trial expected. In the
meantime the two, by mutual agree
ment will remain apart. In an official
statement by the counsel for both
parties tonight it was confirmed that
the long suspected culmination in
the wedded lives of Stanford White's
elaycr and the woman whose story in
his defense brought her the unhappy
notoriety as wide as the reading
world. For weeks it has been gos
iiped that a divorce was imminent
and event during Thaw's last trial
throughout which . Jiis wife stood
eamelv bv him, it was pretty gener
ally believed that whatever the out
come, the two. would never live to
gether again.
Thcse rcoorts frequently were Bas
ed on the rumored objection to the
young woman on .the part of the
Thaw family. In their statements to
night however, counsel denied that
Mrs. William Thaw, Harry's mother,
had taken any part in the proposed
separation.
Col. Franklin Bartlctt, Mrs. Wil
liam Thaw's attorney, made a state
ment in which he said there was no
ttuth that Evely Thaw had been fol
lowed by detectives. Col. Bartlctt
also stated the Thaw family desired
to be absolutely fair with Evelyn and
to make a liberal provision for her
support. Even more than that Harry
had sought a reconciliation and has
not desired his wife to leave him.
She however desires a permanent
separation.
A. Russell Feabody, Harry Thaw's
lawyer, said he visited Harry at Mat
teawan, and told him of Evelyn's in
tentions. He is willing to defend the
sul.t Peabody said Thaw made no
comment except he was sane at the
time of his marriage and was willing
to meet the issue. '
Daniel O'Reilly, who will be couiv
sel for Evelyn said Evelyn would
tiike the stand during the annulment
proceedings and several experts who
testified in the murder trial will also
' be called. He said he did not think
Thaw would put any serious obstacles
in the way of a separation if for no
other reason that the gratitude he felt
toward his wife for the aid she ren
dered him when he was on trial for
his life. . '
SHOT DEAD BY BURGLAR.
VICTORIA, March 10-Charles A.
Fried, well known in sporting circles
in this city, was shot and killed by a
burglar about midnight Friedman
has just returned with his wife from
the theatre and on going to the pan
try found the burglar there. In the
scuffle that followed, the burglar
shot Friedman dead.
ASSASSIN
OF
TIEIERG
Harry .Orchard Pleads
Guilty at Caldwell,
FAMOUS MURDER CASE
Plea Was Voluntary and Against
Advice of Those Who Had
Talked With Him.
BREAKS THE RECORD.
Forrest Smithson o! Portland Shows
New Yorkers How to Hop Hardies.
NEW YORK.M arch lO.-Forrest
Smithson, formerly of Portland, Or.,
running in the colors of the New
York Athletic Club, made a new
world's record of 8 4-S seconds over
t 70 yard hurdle at Madison Square
Cardcn tonight
CORONERS
VERDICT
CHILD DIES FROM FRIGHT.
..fiif rrnv irtPtivat
1 inns yesterday declared that the death
of Grace Seamans eight year oia,
daughter of Arthur Scamani which
Steam Pipes Too Close to Wood
Caused Fire.
A HORRIBLE RESPONSIBILITY
Poor Little Children Were Caught
In Veritable Trap and Held and
Crushed Until Burned to Death
Someone is Responsible.
CLEVELAND, March 10.-"The
loss of the lives of the little children
in the Collingswood school fire was
absolutely inexcusable," said Coroner
Burke today, after making a thorough
investigation. "The poor little chil
dren were caught in a veritable trap
and held and crushed. until burned
to death. Some one is responsible for
this and should be held. I am not pre
nared vet to say upon whom ' the
blame should be placed. Before I
can charge anyone with the horrible
responsibility, I must review the evi
dence carefully and deliberately. I
find that the steam pipes caused the
fire by being placed too close to the
wood. There is no doubt in my mind
that the over-heated pipes caused the
fire." i
Another body was recovered today
making a total of 166.
SHOPPING DISTRICT FIRE.
NEW YORK, March 10. - Fire
early today practically destroyed a
buildinsf at 41 West Seventeenth
street which ran through to 38 West
Eighteenth street near Sixth avenue,
in the heart of the shopping district
Adjoining buildings were somewhat
damaged and for a time it looked as
if the fire might reach some of the
big department stores in Sixth ave
nue. None of them suffered, however,
exceot for the breaking of widows,
cracked by the heat of the fire. The
loss is estimated at from $30,000 to
$125,000. '
ADVANTAGE OF LEGAL RIGHTS
Orchard Pleaded Guilty to Having
Killed Former Governor Steunen
berg by the Explosion of a Bomb
at the Side Gate of His Residence.
BOISE, Idaho, March 10-The last
chapter in the famous Steunenberg
murder case was begun this morning
when in the district court of Canyon
County at Caldwell. Harry Orchard
pledaed guilty to a charge of murder
in the first degree. After Pettibone
was acquitted an opinion war ex
pressed in many quarters that Or
chard would take the advantage of
every legal right he might have to
obtain his own release or a light
sentence. , The stand he took this j
morning was a great surprise to most
oersons and his attorney says it was
entirely voluntary and against the
advice of those who had seen and
talked with him.
There were few persons in court
this morning when the case was call
ed. Frank T. Wyman, Orchard's
counsel, immediately notified the
court that Orchard desired his plea
of not guilty which had been entered
in his case by the order of the court
when Orchard at his first arraign
ment refused to plea cither way.
Judge Wood questioned Orchard as
to whether he fully understood the
status of case, what is meant for him
to plead guilty and if he understood
that to plead guilty to the charge in
the indictment meant guilty to plead
ing guilty to first degree murder.
Perfectly calm, with no indication
of emotion in his face or voice, Or
chard answered that he had gone over
the matter very thoroughly with his
attorney and had made up his mind
definitely. Judge Wood allowed the
plea to be changeoVand set March 18
at 10 a. m. as the date for sentence.
LANGDON-HENEY AFFIDAVITS
SAN FRANCISCO, March 10.
The affidavits of Heney and Langdon
were filed today in refutation of those
of Ruef and others in support of
Ruef's motion for a vacation of his
arraignment in the trolley cases on
the ground that he had been promised
immunity. Both Heney and Langdon
deny that Ruef was ever promised
full immunity, and declare that Ruef,
has failed to live up to his pledge.
Hency's affidavit is the longest docu
ment ever filed in any court in this
city. It contains 65,000 words and by
the side of it the rapid-fire of affida
vits that Ruef- has introduced, pale
into insignificance.
Heney's affidavit will be followed
tomorrow by one from Detective
Burns which will corroborate all of
Heney's statements. It will contains
40,000 words.
HAMILTON SPEECH.
WASHINGTON, March 10. -The
consideration of the postoffice appro
priation bill was 'resumed by the
House of Representatives today. Al
thought amendments were in order,
the bill, when it was laid aside for
the day, with 11 pages disposed of
had undergone no material change.
A noteworthy speech by Hamilton of
Michigan, upholding the right of the
federal government to control corpo
rations and sustaining the President
in his attitude toward them.
Small and Finley attacked the
proposition to increase the pay for
ocean mail service on the ground that
k was but a subterfuge for the ship
subsidy. ,
HITCHCOCK'S TRIAL BEGUN.
NEW YORK, March 10.-The trial
of Raymond Hitchcock, the actor,
who is under Indictment on charges
preferred by several young girls, will
be begun in the supreme court today
before Judge Blanchard. A special
jury has been summoned for the trial
The case has been postponed a num
ber of times, but it is said that no
further excuses will be entertained by
the court.
I . E SCI TZ
RELEASED
Judge Dunne Dismisses
Ex-Mayor Schmitz.
pany in 1900. While the actual
holders of record number 95,000 the
steel corporation officials figure that
a great many of the banking and
brokerage houses and syndicates
whose names appear on" the records,
carry stock for individuals who, if
their holdings were transferred to
their names, would bring the rest of
shareholders nearest to 125,000 than
95,000.' .
DEMURRER IS ALLOWED
Pending a Decision of the Su
preme Court Schmitz Has
Waited Patiently.
LYNCHED
4
NEGROES
Taken From Sheritf While En-
route to the Jail.
HAD BURNED WAREHOUSES
Four Negroes Were Lynched at Van
Cleave, Miss, Twenty Miles North
of Biloxi, Miss., by a Mob of Thirty
Men Last Night
MOBILE, March 10. Dave Poe,
Tom Ronston and the two Jenkins
brothers, all negroes, were lynched at
Van Cleave, Miss., 20 miles north of
Biloxi, Miss., by a mob of thirty men
last night The men were en route to
the jail in the custody of the deputy-
sheriff. The men confessed to having
humed warehouses. The bodies of
the negroes were found this morning
hanging to the limbs of trees by the
side of the road.
HAD BEEN IN JAIL 9 MONTHS
Judge Dunne Directed Case Against
the Former Mayor to be Submitted
to Another Grand JuryLast Indict
ment Did Not Constitute a Crime.
SAN FRANCISCO. March 10.-
Eugene E. Schmitz, formerly mayor
of San Francisco, will probably be
set at liberty tomorrow after being
confined for nine months in the
county jail, during which time a de
cision by the supreme court was
pending.
Judge Dunne this afternoon presid
ed in nis department or me superior
court long enough to make an order
sustaining the demurrer to an indict
ment and dismissing Schmitz from
the custody in pursuance to the re
mittitur of the court of appeals, sus
tained by the supreme court yester
day afternoon, directing that the trial
court take this action on the ground
that the charge in the indictment did
not constitute a crime because it did
not aver that "Unlawful injury" was
threatened by the mayor. Judge
Dunne, however, being of the opinion
that the objection on which the de
murrer was allowed may be avoided
in a new indictment, directed the case
against the former mayor to be sub
mitted to another grand jury.N
Eugene E. Schmitz was released
from jail tonight after presenting
bonds in the sum of $150,000. The
charges of extortion against him on
which he has not yet been tried were
dismissed.
N AST'S DRAWINGS ON SALE.
NEW YORK,"Mar. 10,-Oil paint
ings and drawings by Thomas Nast,
in addition to specimens of the work
of other artists that were collected
hv Nast before his death, are the
features of a sale which opens this
evening. The sale will continue
tomorrow night also. The final dis
persal sale of Nast's pictures and in
cludes water colors and pen and ink,
and wash drawings and cartoons as
well as the canvasses in oil The
paintings include a canvass by
Thomas Moran which has a peculiar
history. It was bought by Mr. Nast
in 1869, as the work of J. M. W. Tur
ner, formerly a reputable dealer who
had purchased it in London as a
Turner.
DISAGREES WITH STEVENS.
WASHINGTON, March 10,-Sec-retary
Taft said today that he did not
care to comment upon the statement
attributed to the former chief 4 engi
neer Stevens of the Panama Canal
that the canal wjll prove an utter
failure, except to say he did not agree
with him and added with a smile,
"I think I am with the American peo
ple it that view."
WHALE IN L. I. SOUND.
NEW YORK, March 10. Old time
whalers at Amagansett, L. I., were
excited yesterday when for the first
time in a year, a whale was sighted,
about three miles off shore. A whale
boat manned by former experts at
the business of whaling put off after
the big fellow. The whale was wary,
however,, and after spouting three or
four times, struck put for the open
sea. Pursuit was abandoned toward
dark. .
BROWNSVILLE AFFAIR.
WASHINGTON, March 10. -The
final reports of the committee on mil
itary affairs in relation to the Browns
ville affair will be made in the Sen
ate tomorrow. Senator Warner will
present the report of the majority,
sustaining the President's action in
discharging the negro troops and
Senator Forafcer will present the re
port of the minority.
CURRENCY BILL NEEDLESS.
WASHINGTON, March' 10.-Cot-ton
as a basis for the issuance of
treasury notes in times of a strin
gency was the chief feature of a
speech on the pending currency bill
by Senator McLaurin of Mississippi.
McLaurin thought there was no
special need for currency legislation
and claimed that the polices of the
Republican party were responsible
for the recent panic. Gallinger se
cured "an agreement to vote on the
ocean mail subsidy bill on the 20th
inst. The Senate passed several bills
on the calendar and adjourned.
JAPANESE IN JAIL
Wanted Drawings of San Fran
' . Cisco Fortifications.
EVIDENCE IS INCRIMINATING
MULTINOUS CONVICTS.
CHICAGO, Mar. 10.-A despatch
to the Tribune from Pontiac, 111.
says:
A rush of 700 mutinous con
victs for the wall which stands be
tween them and liberty, took place
at the state reformatory yesterday.
The guards put up a stubborn fight
and the ring leaders, all Chicago
criminate were herded into the top
gallery. There, on a narrow platform
forty feet from the main floor, they
foueht until finally quelled. Half a
dozen guards and as many prisoners
were injured in the fight.
Proof of a well outlined plot to
overthrow the guards and free the
1,200 prisoners was discovered by the
institution officials. An effort will be
made to seek out the other ring
leaders and preven' further plans
from materializing.
U. S. STEEL CORPORATION.
NEW YORK, Mar. lO.-Stock-holders
of the U. S. Steel Corpora
tion, it was announced yesterday,
have reached the vast aggregate of
95,000 the largest in its history. A
considerable proportion of the total
has been added to the stock books
during the last nine months and the
increase in the number of stock
holders since last summer has been
larger than in any similar period
since the organization of the corn-
Draughtsman Clinton Was Approach
ed by the Japanese and After Mak
ing His Request Clinton Seized
and Held Him Till Officer Arrived.
ELY, Nevada, March 10. A Jap
anese, who refused to divulge his
name when arrested at Riepetown, a.
few miles from this city last night
after a hard struggle in which he al
most completely chewing off two
fingers of Draughtsman Clinton, who
was trying to hold him until the offi
cers arrived.
Clinton, who is an expert draughts
man, was approached by the Japanese
while in a saloon. The Japanese after
talking over various subjects finally
sked Clinton to go with him to San
Francisco and get the drawings of
the fortifications, assuring Clinton
that he would pay him well. Clinton
indignantly refused and held onto the
Japanese until the officers arrived.
The Japanese is now in jail and
the police are looking for his posses
sions, hoping to find . incriminating
evidence.
WITNESSES SENT TO PEKIN.
HONG KONG, March 10,-In an
interview today the Japanese Consul
laughed at the naval activity in con
nection with the seizure of the steam
er Tatsu Maru. He believes the
steamer will be released in a day or
so. A mass meeting has been called
at Canton to protest against the re
lease of the vessel. The viceroy of
Canton shared in the general indigna
tion. The witnesses of the seizure of
Tatsu have been sent to Pekin. The
Tatsu is still held at Whompoa. The
Japanese cruiser Idzumi has arrived
here.