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PUIUSHCS PULL AltOCIATCD PRCtt REPORT COVERSTHE MORNING PIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA 33rd YEAR. NO. 66 ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1908 PRICE RYE CENTS RELATIONS STRAINED XL At ) Between Haytien Govern ment and France. EVEN MEN ARE SHOT The Situation Is Further Com plicated By Revolutionists Taking Refuge. DEMANDED THREE REFUGEES It Hit Been Reported That There Are a Number of Men Under the Protection of the American Flag in the Office of the Coniular Agent PARIS, March 16. The situation between the Haytien government and l - . i j ! - I trance iws octuinc acuic ami criucai. The French Legation at Port Au Prince is menaced and a general massacre of the white resident! of the islands is feared. Thit information was conveyed in an official dispatch to the. Foreign Office from M. Car tcron, the French Minister to Hayti. The situation in the Haytien Re public which, for eevcral weeks, hai been the scene of revolutionary activi ties, against the administration of General Alexis Nord, is reported to have taken a serious turn yesterday. Eleven prominent politicians, it is aid, were, by executive order, sum marily shot to death at daybreak in the outskirts of Port Au Prince. The executed men were charged with conspiracy against the government The situation is further complicat ed by the fact that a number of revolu tionists took refuge, when the move ment failed, in the foreign consulates, and especially the French, at Oon aives and St Marc, The Haytien government demanded that these men be handed to it, but France refused , ji the ground that it was' not satisfi cushat they would be given humane and lawful treatment when they left the protection of the French flag. The situation is complicated further by the allegation that the revolution r movement was fostered, in some foreign consulates in llayti. Charles Miot, a Haytien, who was American Consular at St. Marc, was removed from office in January by the Ameri can Legation on the ground of com plicity with the rebels. It has been reported that there were a number of Hoyticn refugees under the protec tion of the American flag in the office of the American Consular agent at Port du Palx. FOREIGNERS THREATENED. Political Arrests Cause Unrest in 'the Island of HaytL ' BERLIN. March 16,-The German Admiralty has, ordered the cruiser Bremen, at present at Curacao, to go to Port Au Prince, Hayti, to be at the disposal of the1 German Minister for the protection of German sub' jeets or other foreigners. The Foreign Office has been in cor respondence with the French govern ment with regard to the political ar rests made recently in Hayti, and the general situation of unrest in the island. A French cruiser, it was learn ed today, has been ordered to Port Au Prince. A tffWrnm received here bv the German Cable Company from Port Aiy'Prince, March 15, says that the mety of foreigners there was ser iously threatened. BXAMININO CHURCH EXITS. CHICAGO, March .-Investigation of the churches of Chicago re uniting the danger of fire and pro tection of congregations In the matter of exits was started to-day by 130 captains of the fire department, act ing under the personal instructions of Fire Marshal James Horan. They examined over 700 church buildings. Although no reports have been re ceived as yet at Marshal Horen's of fice from battalion chiefs, a canvas of a few of the stations near the down town district showed four of the churches violated the state law as well as the city ordinances in the locking of certain exit doors. In many of the churchee it was found doors swing inward. ," f ; The fire captains today ' will , turn in to Chief Horah complete reports and recommendations as to neces sary changes. Notices at once will be served on pastors and trustees of churches found to be of faulty con struction or where doors have been found locked that the city ordinance must be complied with In the future. It I not expected that any refusal will be met with. ; ' ? f ' ' : . ' COMMUNICATE WITH FLEET. SEATTLE. March 16. -Early to night the United Wireless Company was In communication with the bat tleship fleet in Magdalene Bay. The first vessel picked up was the-Connecticut Instruments working per fectly and aerograms to Point Loma station could be distinctly read. mm TILLMAN S TRUMPETING Will Probably Go to Another St tion In East HIS SUCCESSOR NOT NAMED It la Thought That Colonel W. C. Langfitt Will be Appointed to the Vacancy aa he Had the Post Sev eral Years Ago. PORTLAND, March 16. -Colonel S. W. Roessler, United States engi neer in charge of the works at the mouth of the Columbia River, Coos Bay and other points along the coast of Oregon and Washington has been ordered to some point in the east, according to reports received here to day. Colonel Roessler will leave Portland before April 15th. His suc cessor will probably be Col. W. C. Langfitt, who formerly was in charge of. this station. HOUSE WORKING. WASHINGTON. March 16,-The whole of today's session of the house was devoted to the consideration of bills under suspension of the rules. A number were passed including one providing for the restoration of the motto "In God We Trust" on Ameri can coins and another increasing the efficiency of the medical department of the army. Among other bills pass ed were the ones providing that ap peals from the district court of Alaska may be heard at either Seattle, San Francisco or Portland and granting the local steamboat inspectors au thority to pass upon the fitness of of ficers and crews of steam vessels and re-organizing the consular service. Delivers Direct and Den unciatory Address. SWINGING OF PENDULUM He Said "The House Had Degen erated Into Little More Than a Recording Machine". BEVERIDGES SPIRITED REPLY Wanted to Know of National Banks of New York Were in the Habit of Furnishing Permanent Capital For Speculative Purposes. WASHINGTON, March 16,-With caution unusual for him, Tillman to day read part of his speech in the Senate in which he denounced the executive encroachment on the legis lative power. With this apparent caution, he proceded to deliver one of the most direct and denunciatory ad dresses ever heard in that body. His speech was based on his resolution instructing the committee on finance to inquire whether the national banks of New York are in the habit of furnishing permanent capital for speculative purposes. The resolution was adopted. Tillman traced what he called the "Swinging of the pendulum" from the regime of Andrew Johnson when con gress assumed the control almost to the exclusion of the President from the legislative influence to the admin istrations which followed, which he declared witnessed the growth of the Presidential power. "Now," he said, "The house has degenerated into little more than a recording machine to do the will of the speaker and his lieutenants. The freedom of debate in the old and true sense has disappeared from that end of the capitol. In the Senate, servil ity and cowardice are the order of the day." x He declared that "While the free dom of debate still exists the shadow of the executive hangs over all and the President's wishes are almost the only law." The cause of this condition, Till man declared, is federal patronage Senator Beveridge made a spirited defense of the President and the Re publican party, declaring that what has been termed the subserviency of the Republican Senators was merely an evidence of harmony between the President and his party. Beveridge characterized Tillman as a "Corn fed lawyer" Tillman objected to that title but added he was mighty fond of corn bread. . POLITICAL DISCUSSION. WASHINGTON, March 16.-Un-dcr the guise of discussing legislation, the session of the Senate today was devoted to a political discussion in which Tillman and Beveridge were the chief participants. The Senate considered the traffic report on the Indian appropriation bill and ' after some criticism of the action of con ferees on minor provision a report was disagreed to and another confer ence asked. .', , WATERS RAGING IN IDAHO. SPOKANE, March 16.-The inces sant fall of rain in Northern Idaho from Saturday morning until Monday has caused the waters of the St. Joe river to overflow its banks resulting in considerable loss of property Dwellings along its banks have been abandoned and the people taken to the uplands. This afternoon the rain is still falling in sheets. Lewiston will be Isolated for a week. More than two miles of track and many new bridges have been washed out on the line down to Potlatch Creek. The Pine Creek Lumber Company .' near Kendrick lost a $100,000 -dam and more than a million feet of logs. At Lewiston. the Clearwater is ; higher than it has been for years and it is still rising. The warm weather and rains still prevail in the headwaters of the Snake and Clearwater Rivers. The crest of the flood is still to come. One life was lost Sunday. BAG OF BUCKSHOT. Placed in Vestibule of Church With Note Attached. STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo,, March 16. Rev. H. S. Tyford, pastor of the Methodist Church here, found an anonymous message scrawled on a scrap of paper and pinned to a bag containing buckshot in the vestibule of the church last evening warning him he would be filled with the shot unless he stopped preaching against the liquor interests. Mr. Tyford read the warning from the pulpit and an nounced that he would deliver an other, temperance lecture next Sun day. -V""- : . " . ,, v,, , WILL BE CONFIRMED. WASHINGTON, March 16,-The judiciary committee today authorized Senator Fulton to report the McCourt nomination favorably. Under the Senate rules, the report lies over one day before confirmation unless im mediate action is necessary by con ditions of the service. The Senate will undoubtedly confirm McCourt's nomination Wednesday. WAS IT REQUESTED? WASHINGTON, March lcV-Pub-lie Printer Stillings tendered his res ignation today. It was accepted. HERO! REWARDED Governor Buchtel Pardon ; Trusty Who Was Cut the FOUND BLADE IN ALU'S COAT Each Side of the Blade Had Been Ground or Filed to Keen Edge Guy Sexton the "Trusty," Was Short Term Man. DENVER, larch 16.-For his heroism in overpowering Giusseppe Alia, the condemned murderer of Father Leo, when Alia attempted to escape from the county fail Saturday, Guy Sexton, a "trusty" serving a short term for a small theft was par doned today by Governor Buchtel. Sexton was cut in the neck with a razor by Alia receiving a severe but not dangerous wound. A scissor blade was found today concealed in the sleeve of Alia's coat Each side of the blade had been ground or filed to a sharp edge. How the murderer secured the two blades has not been definitely ascertained. STORM VERY No Trains From East Since Saturday. ALL RIVERS VERY HIGH Slides Have Occured From Wyeth to Points Beyond Pendleton and Wires are Down. RIOTING AT FAIRBANKS. SEATTLE, March 16. ' A special cable to the Post-Intelligencer from Fairbanks, dated March 17, says that members of the Western Federation enggaed in a riot this morning. They molested and threatened the men go ing out on the train to work and pre vented the railroad men from loading baggage on the train, A deputy mar shal found it necessary to club the rioters into obedience to law. Five shots were fired at the deputy mar shal but no one was injured. COURT AFFAIRS DECISION. , WASHINGTON, March 16,-By division of S to 3 the supreme court )of the United States today affirmed the decision of the circuit court of appeals for the eighth district impos ing fines on the C. B. & Q. for grant ing and packers of Kansas City for accepting rebates on "shipments in tended for export, " Judges Brewer and Peckham dis sented and Judge Moody took no part. , . -H WARM WEATHER MELTS SNOW The Water is High end Still Rising, ' and Great Damage is Being Done Bridges Carried Away One Life Lost So Far. PORTLAND, March 16-No trains on the O. R. & N. got through from the East from Saturday night until this morning at 9:30, when combined Nos. 3 and 5, which had managed to crawl past the great mud slide at Wyeth, loafed into the Union Depot Four east bound trains were sent out from Portland from 6 o'clock Satur day afternoon, but' all had" to be brought back and annulled. There has been trouble all along the O. R & N., due not only to the heavy rain fall, but the melting of snow in the mountains, which the heavy wind has helped to aggravate. Slides have oc curred from Wyeth to points beyond Pendleton, and the wire service is so unsatisfactory that but little definite news has been received here as to the extent of damage done. Meacham Creek, between La Grande and Pen dleton, has been on a big tear, but with the ceasing of the downpour at 3 o'clock this morning it is not ex pected that much further damage from flood will be done. Six hun dred feet of spur track has already been washed into the river, and the new steel bridge near Pendleton is in danger of going out, vowing to the rapid rise of the Umatilla. The water is high, and still rising, and great masses of driftwood are heaped against the bridge, while a big gang of men is attempting to save the structure. Yesterday afternoon a mud slide 400 feet in length and from four to ten feet in depth buried the tracks east of Duncan, and the roadway will not only have to be cleared but repaired before normal traffic can be resumed. Trains Nos. 1 and S were laid out at La Grande all day yesterday,- and will probably be run through this afternoon or in the morning. So far no damage has been done throughout the Willamette galley and all Southern Pacific trains have been arriving as near their regular sched ule as usual The Oregon electric line is reported O. K, between here and Salem and the Northern Pacific from here- to the Sound is all clear, though the trains have been deloyed at intervals by high water and small landslides.', Concerning the river at Portland, ! District Forecaster E. A. Beals has issued the following bulletin: "Owing to the recent heavy rains and mild weather, all rivers in this district have risen rapidly during the last 24 hours. . The river at Portland will comt to a stand at a stage of about 13 feet by Tuesday afternoon. It will fall Wednesday." Driftwood, railroad ties and var ious forms of wreckage are arriving from un-river points, which have been set afloat by the sudden rise. Little nf it manasres to tret by the closely driven oiling beneath the Madison- street bridge. Private reports receiv ed from Salem and other river towns state that great quantities of fire- , wood, ties and other material have been been carried : away by the freshet The stream rose so quickly that there was no chance to save any such property which has been left near the shore line. I Captain Graham, of the Oregon City Transportation Company, has been advised that the river at Salem d.ww m fc . " iVVV .LfVTC IUW-W.ICT mark Saturday. At 8 o'clock' this morning it was 15.6 feet, and still ris ing. It was stated, however, that the Santiam and other tributaries were at a stand.' -. . ... - No. 6 last night was annulled from Portland to La Grande, but was made up at that point this morning and proceeded eastward on regular time. No. 8 this morning was annulled, No. 2 started out on time, but it is very doubtful if it will be able to get through, as the whole mountain side at Wyeth seems to be sliding down toward the river's brink and burying the track as rapidly as it can be cleared. In order to give at least partial accommodations, passengers will be transferred hereafter at Eagle Creek, near Bonneville, ' until the track has been cleared. In the bast 24 hours the Willamette at Portland has increased in depth 5.4 feet, showing a stage of 11.8 feet at 5 o'clock this morning. The dark muddy water is rolling toward the sea at a rate of about five miles an hour. Because of the swift current Mr. Beals is of the opinion that the surplus water will soon run out STOP INAUGURATION 'I The North Bank Road Tied Up By Storm. 0.R.&N.IS IN BAD SHAPE Six Hundred Passengers Stalled by Washouts and Landslides Making Despatching of Trains an Impossi bilityLines Down News Scarce. LA GRANDE, March 16,-Six hundred O. R. & N. passengers are stalled here, awaiting a train west, which they will not get before to morrow morning, as a fresh land slide has taken place at Huron, over the Blue Mountain divide, between Kamela and Pendleton. Fifteen miles of track west of here was put in bad condition at various places by the rains, but all the Jap construction crews and men of the section crews were called to the 1 slopes ot the Blue Mountains to re pair the damage. But for the new slide, the west bound trains would have gone out this morning. Passengers are required to leave the through trains here and the lat ter are turned around and run back as east bound. " ' North Bank Train Stopped. VANCOUVER, Wash., March 16. The severe rains of the past two days have disarranged the plans of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Rail way for the inauguration of regular passenger trains, atid as a result a number of intending passengers wer disappointed this morning. The rains had caused an Unexpected rise in several of the streams, and as a result several' washouts and land slides have occurred, making the dispatching of a train; this morning impossible. None of the damage is serious, and it is now expected by Agent Mcln tyre that the first train will be started on schedule time tomorrow morning. At Washougal two bents of the bridge are damaged. The rise of the Washougal, which for some time has been exceptionally low, brought down an immense run of logs, - whichY lodged against the piers, causing two of the bents to shift There is also a small washout at Carson, and one or two landslides near Seal ; .