33rd YEAR. NO. 81
ASTORIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1908
PRICE FIVE CENTS
REPUBLICAN
CONVENTION
Instruct Their Delegates
for Fairbanks.
WATSON FOR GOVERNOR
The Contest for Governor Was
Eager it Took Five Ballots
to Decide it
LOUD BURSTS OF ENTHUSIASM
Greeted the Assembly When the
Names of Roosevelt, Fairbanks, the
Two Indiana Senators and Cover
nor Hanly Were Mentioned.
INDIANAPOLIS, April 2,-Thc
Indiana Republican State Convention
today adopted a platform endorsing
Vice-President Fairbanks and in
structed the 30 state delegate to the
national convention to vote and work
for hi nomination for President and
nominated a ticket headed by James
E. Watson, of Rushville, for Gover
nor, and Fremont C. Goodwin, of
Williamson for lieutenant-governor.
Thccontcot for the nomination of
Governor wa eager and it took five
ballots to decide it. The mention of
President Roosevelt, Vice-President
Fairbanks, the names of the two
United States Senators from Indiana
and of Governor Hanly brought from
the galleries bursts of enthusiasm,
The convention was the 'greatest and
the licvclicst ever held in the state.
The platform was adopted practically
as was recommended by the commit
tee yesterday. '
LOSE SPOT COTTON TRADE-
Commission Told Through Lading
Bills to Southern Ports.
" NEW ORLEANS, April 2,-That
the spot cotton business nt this port
is doomed because the staple is now
boucht in the interior on through
two witnesses today before the New
Orleans port investigating commis
sion, recently created legislative body
that is looking into port abuses and
seeking to place thtc responsibility.
Henry Hyman A, Cotton, freight
epent, tested that consumers are
lv.rh the'?' .ot ot: cheaper in the
rm:y; ' ?C 4tU tie Illinois Central
Railroad Has a monopoly on practi-
ctl'y ev'T ba!; received here, The
Vil'ies? diluted that tramp ships
kept the Liverpool rate down here.
s Jeff D. .Harding, Jr., testified that
he had been shut out of making book
ings of cotton along the Illinois Cen
tral Railroad. Statistics were submit
ted showing that rates on liners and
tramps out of Calveston were lower
than the New Orleans tariff.
DAYILGHT BILL ADVANCED.
House of Commons Shelves Suffrage
Measure, but Takes Up Joker.
LONDON, April 2,-The house of
commons has passed on its second
reading the Pearcc daylight saving
bill, which provides new British time
for the summer months. The an
nouncement of the vote was greeted
with cheers and roars of laughter.
The bill was referred to a special
committee and it thus will get de
tailed consideration. It provides
that all clocks; shall be advanced 80
minutes, which' will give an extra 210
hours of daylight. Thus a man get
ting up at apparently nine o'clock in
the morning would be really doing
so at 7:40, thus gaining an hour and
20 minutes of daylight. ' 4
That such a measure ,which many
regard as mere foolishness, should
get Mich attention in the house of
commons will be wormwood to the
suffragettes, whose woman suffrage
bill was sent to the committee of the
whole house, which action virtually
shelves it.
JURY "DELIBERATIONS
CHICAGO, April 2.-A fight be
tween jurymen, in which a heavy
oak chair was demolished, tables and
other furniture dented and several
men slightly injured, marked the
jury's deliberations in the "Barney"
Coffey Sunday Closing case in the
municipal court.
After hours of this kind of argu
ment the jury, was called before
Judge Foster and reported a dis
agreement yesterday. The jury
stood ten for acquittal and two for
conviction, Sixteen ballots were
taken and on the ninth ballot one
man stood for conviction but revers
cd on the following ballot.
BRYAN'S SEVEN SPEECHES.
DES MOINES, la., April 2. Wil
liam J. Bryan who, with Gov. Has
kell of Oklahoma will make the prin
cipal address at to-night's banquet
of the Iowa Ucmocratic Uub is
scheduled to make seven speeches
in all during the day.
HARMON SCHROEDER DEAD.
NEW YORK, April 2 -Said to
have been the first refiner of sugar
in the United States, Harmon Schroe
der, a" native of Germany, retired for
30 years after a successful business
career in this city, is dead at his
home here, aged 88.
PRAIRIE ON FIRE
Fifty Mile Wind Fanned the Furl
ous Flames.
SEVERAL LIVES ARE LOST
As Rapidly as Possible Farmers
Plowed Safety Furrows Around
Their Buildings, But in Many Cases
the Fire Reached Them.
PAXTON, Neb., April 2-A prairie
fire has been raging in the sand hills
for two days. James Kane is known
to have been burned to death, many
houses were destroyed, hundreds of
head of livestock were lost and thou
sands of acres of prairie burned. The
fife started Tuesday. All day Wed
nesday a 50-mile wind blew and the
blaze swept across the prairie with
tremendous speed. Blazing embers
were carried 10 miles in advance of
the flames' in places.
The sky was so black with smoke
that ranchmen were unable to locate
the fire until the blaze was upon
them. As rapidly as possible ranclv
crs plowed safety furrows around
their buildings, but in many cases
the flames reached them before, the
plowing was completed.
This happened in the case of James
Kane, a ranchman north of Paxton,
and Kaiie, together with his house
and all his livestock, was burned.
Grave fears are held for the safety
of other ranchors.
ORGANIST HANGS HIMSELF.
CHICAGO, April 2. Henry J.
Wry for many years organist in
prominent Chicago churches commit
ted suicide yesterday at the Northern
Illinois Insane Hospital at Elgin
after having been committed tq the
institution a month ago . suffering
from acute melancholia brought on
by the discovery that he was afflicted
with cancer of the stomach. Mr. Wry
who was 59 years old, ended his life
by hanging himself with a towel.
ATTACHED AT
T
Agricultural Bill Under
went Many Changes.
DISCUSSED NINE DAYS
With the Agricultural Bill Out of
the Way Democrats and Re
publicans Locked Horns.
CARRIEST0TAL0F$1 1,508,000
Chairman Scott Made an Unsuccess
ful Attempt to Have Stricken Out
Amendment Considerably Increas
ing Amount for Soil Investigation,
WASHINGTON, April 2,-Carry-ing
a total of $11,508,000 the agricul
tural appropriation bill was passed by
the House late today. It has been
under discussion for nine days and
from the time its consideration was
begun until the very end its provis
ions were attacked at every turn
with the result that it underwent
many changes. Just before its pas
sage, Scott of Kansas, chairman - of
the agricultural committee, made an
unsuccessful attempt to have stricken
out the amendment considerably in
creasing the appropriation for soil in
vestigation.
During the debate today a brief
flurry was caused by Harrison of New
York, who is a Democrat, character
izing a socialistic bill of minority
Leader Williams providing for the
utilization of the treasury surplus in
the construction and improvement of
the roads in several states. With the
agricultural bill out of the way the
Democrats and Republicans locked
horns with each other on all subse
quent business with the result that
one of the most vigorous filibusters
ever conducted in the Houes was en
tered upon. Majority Leader Payne
threw down the gauntlet to the
Democrats and notified them that the
Republicans did not propose to ac
cept their dictation as to what the
program of legislation should be.
Minority Leader Williams accepted
the challenge, whereupon the Demo
crats resorted to every obstructive
tactic known to parliamentary law on
every proposition that came up for
consideration. It was 11:09 p.
before the House adjourned
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LOUD'S SECRETARY.
Testifies in the Submarine Boat In
vestigation. WASHINGTON, April 2.-That
the attorney of the Electric Boat Co.
was pressing and "Bearing down"
upon a member of Congress in refer
ence to the submarine boat legisla
tion was the charge made today be
fore the house special committee of
investigation. Charge was made by
Frank L. Edinborough of Bay City,
Mich., a state Senator and former
private secretary to Congressman
Loud, who is member of the house
committee on naval affairs, Edin
borough testified that the attorney in
question is A. G. Gordon and the
member whom he was pressing was
Mr. Loud. Edinborouuh was not a
willing witness and at first refused
to answer certain questions on the
ground that they were confidential
owing to the fact that he had been
private secretary to Loud, but Loud
released him from such obligations
and he then told his story
Edinborough produced an anony
mous letter which he said he received
m
in Bay City, February 17 from Wash
ington stating that "Loud had voted
for $1,418,000 graft in the naval com
mittee" that there was a story in cir
culate that the Holland people had
secured a prominent attorney to be
come a candidate for Congress
against Loud; that Loud finally
agreed to vote for the submarine bill
on condition that the attorney with
draw as a candidate. Lilley today
made a statement correcting part of
the testimony given yesterday before
the committee by Frank Taylor of
Waterbury, Conn. In this statement
Jjlley referred especially to Taylor's
announcement concerning the possi
ble result of the committee's inquiry.
On that point he said:
"Taylor stated that he heard me
say in the Waterbury Club before
about a dozen members that I ex
pected an adverse report from the
committee and that I would go on
the floor of the house and tell all I
know about the submarines. His tes
timony differs only in the following
particular: While taking a lunch in
the Waterbury Club,' some one pres
ent asked me what would happen if
the committee reported adversely. It
was at that oment, as I remember,
that Taylor entered the room and
heard only my reply which was that
in the event of an adverse report I
would still have the privilege of
making an argument of the floor of
the House and presenting my side of
the case".
CHIEF GOES FOR SWINDLER-
SAN FRANCISCO, April 2.-Mi-
chacl Regan, chief of police of Buf
falo, N. Y. arrived in this city yes-
loivlriv anil will return to Ruffalo
with Edmund E. Grimmell, alias
Edward O. Smith, who is wanted in
that city on a charge of swindling
a bank,
DEATH IN A FIRE
ThreeTenementDwellers Burned
to Death.
FIFTEEN SERIOUSLY INJURED
In Their Mad Attempt to Escape
From Smoke and Flames Scores
of Scantily Clad Men, Women and
Children Crowded the Fire Escapes
NEW YORK, April 2.-Three per
sons were killed, 15 were injured,
some of them seriously, and the lives
of nearly 100 persons were endanger
cd by fire in a five-story tenement
house at 44 Hester street, early to
day. The dead are:
Beril Weinstein, his wife and their
one-year-old son.
They were suffocated and burned
in their apartments on the fifth floor.
lhat more lives were not lost was
largely due to the prompt action of
three policemen, who, seeing the
flames in the hall, rushed through the
building and aroused the members of
16 sleeping families. By that time the
stairs were a mass of flames and the
only means of exit was by the fire
escapes. In their mad attempt to
escape from the smoke and flames
scores of scantily clad men, women
and children crowded the narrow
iron platforms and ladders until they
became wedged in solid masses on
the fire escapes, unable to extricate
themselves and blocking the way of
those who had not yet succeeded in
getting out of the building. This
was the situation when the firemen
arrived and began to run up ladders
to take the panic-stricken fugitives
from their perilous position. The
work moved forward very slowly,
however, as in some instances the
combined efforts of half a doezn fire
men were required to drag a woman
or child from the tightly packed
platform. In the meantime the flames
had been constantly spreading and
the terror among the tenants had
carried them past the point of self-
WM IN A
COURT ROOM
Han Convicted of Arson
Draws Revolver.
DETECTIVE SHOT DOWN
Then McDonald Directed His
Fire to the Officers Seated
Around the Table.
MCDONALD WAS HIT SIX TIMES
The Convicted Man Fell With Half
a Dozen Bullets in His Body and
Was Taken to the Hospital He
Will Recover.
TERRE HAUTE, lnd., April 2.
Found guilty on a charge of arson,
Henry F. McDonald in the court
room this afternoon shot and killed
I William E. Dwyer and seriously in-
jured another man and was himself
seriously wounded. The shooting
followed the announcement of the
verdict of the jury before which Mc
Donald had been tried on a charge
of dynamiting the stores and a
church in Sanford last year. When
the jury reported its verdict, Mc
Donald jumped to his feet and drew
a revolver. He fired at Prosecuting
Attorney Cooper but missed. Cooper
dodged and then McDonald directed
his fire at the officers seated around
the table. Without an opportunity to
defend himself, Detective Dwyer was
shot down. Almost immediately the
policemen and the deputy sheriffs in
the court room drew their revolvers
and opened fire on McDonald. The
convicted man fell with a half dozen
bullets in his body., He was taken
to the hospital. It is said that he
will recover.
Harvey V. Jones, the superintend
ent of police, was shot in the side.
Deputy Sheriff Welton sustained a
wound in the chin and a bystander
was also struck. The shooting was
the climax of a sensational trial. The
police department have been active
in the case and several officers of the
department were in the court room
to hear the verdict. They expected a
demonstration but were not expect
ing any such action.
GOVERNORS TO MEET.
President Invites Five Notable Amer
icans to the Convention.
INDIANAPOLIS, April 2. -John
restraint. While firemen on ladders
and others on the ground were call
ing out to them that there was no
danger and that help soon would
reach them, they began, one by one,
to jump from the windows. David
Miller sprang from a fourth-story
window and sustained injuries which
will probably cause death. Rosie
Gallmann, Fannie Berezon and By
man Mettlemann, who jumped from
windows on the second and third
floors,; have broken limbs and were
taken to hospitals.
Several others were internally in
jured. Many others who sustained
more or less serious bruises refused
to go to hospitals.
Weinstein and his wife and baby
were found lying dead in their rooms
on the top floor of the burning
building after the flames had been ex
tinguished. Apparently they had been
overcome by the smoke while trying
to reach the blazing stairway. The
building was damaged to the extent
of about $2000.
Mitchell, ex-president of the miners of
the country is one of the five Ameri
cans selected by President Roosevelt
to be his special guests of a big con
ference of state: and territorial gov
ernors to be held in Washington on
May 13. This conference which will
last three days and the sessions of
which will be held in the White
House, and will be presided over by
President Roosevelt. It will be the
first meeting in the history of the
country of federal and state and ter
ritorial executives. The five special
guests will be Grover Cleveland, W,
J. Bryan, James J. Hill, Andrew Car
negie and John Mitchell
BOMB PLOTTERS ON TRAIL.
Jean Rull and Band Charged With
Causing Explosions in Spain.
BARCELONA, April 2.-The trial
of Jean Rull and eight of his relatives
and friends has begun here. Ft is ex
pected to throw light on the long
series of bomb explosions that have
occured in that city. Rull is charged
with placing bombs and then inform
ing the police of supposed anarchist
outrages in order to get the reward.
As the bombs caused several
deaths, Rull,according to the crown
prosecutor, incurred five death sen
tences besides other penalties. The
prosecutors will demand long terms
of penal servitude for the other ac
cused men.
BUSY DAY FOR BRYAN.
DES MOINES, April 2.-Bryan
was kept busy from the time of his
arrival in Des Moines in the early
morning until late at night making
speeches during the day which were
non-political. He was greeted every
where by great crowds wherever he
appeared.
TQ SUPREME COURT
Ruef s Attorney Makes Applica
tion for Writ of Mandate. ;
IMMUNITY CONTRACT ILLEGAL
Supreme Court is Asked to Prohibit
Dooling From Continuing With the
Trial and to Issue Mandate Order
ing Transfer .of the Case.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 2-With
the views of Judge Dooling as an
nounced from the bench that an
immunity contract is non-existent in
law, illegal if entered into by the dis
trict attorney and unenforcable by
the defendant, indicating a probable
adverse ruling by the court on the
objection of Abe Ruef to further pro
ceedings against him because of a
promise of immunity made, to him by
the prosecution but afterwards re
pudiated, Ruef, through his attorneys
today made an application to the
state supreme court for a writ of
mandate and petitioned for a writ of
prohibition. The application and peti
tion are identical with the ones which
were denied yesterday by the court
of appeals. The supreme court is
asked to prohibit Dooling from con
tinuing with the trial and to issue a
1 mandate ordering Dooling to transfer
the case to another department of
the superior court.
A slight passage occurred during
the arguments this afternoon between
Heney and Ach. Ach at one point
took occasion to paint a vivid picture
of what an arbitrary and summary
proceeding of the courts of justice
would be if Heney had the making of
the laws and control of the courts.
"Political bosses and millionaires
would not be bribing, and lawyers
like you would be starving " inter
jected Heney.
DR. HILL CONFIRMED.
WASHINGTON, April 2. -The
Senate today confirmed the nomina
tion of David Jayne Hill to be Am
bassador to Germany.