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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (April 11, 1908)
v. 33rd YEAR. NO. 88 ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1908 PRICE FIVE CENTS RIOTING IN LISBON Conduct of Municipal Guard Ex cites Great Indignation. WILLING TO DISBAND CORPS The Mob Terribly Beat Number of Cltisens und Priests Who Would Not Cheer For "Liberty" City Still Held by Troops. LISBON, April 10.Subcquent to the rioting on Monday Premier Fcr- ricra offered hit resignation to King Manuel who refuted to accept it. The greatest indignation exists be cauie of the conduct during the di orders of the municipal guard which has been described as the "Wholesale shooting down 'of citizens" and it Is reported that King Manuel is willing to disband the offending corps as a Ibalm for the irritation of the public. The mob terribly beat a number of citizens and the prictts who would not cheer for "Liberty." The city is htill held by troops and the warships are in the roadstead. DOVE OF PEACE. i Hovered Over National Day Long. House AU WASHINGTON, April 10,-Thc dove of pence hovecrd over the House today. Instead of the inter-.-.Li. n if ....i a.. .)(... f iiuiiauiw l vii lima unu uiv ili9liia ui I jtho party leaders on questions of par iamcntary law there was an orderly f cssion devoted almost entirely to the f' onsidcration of the naval appropria ion bill. Chairman Foss and Pad gett, of Tennessee, the committee on riaval affairs made exhaustive speeches justifying the action, of the commit tee in reporting what they character- ted as a conservative naval program. M,Cinley and Knowland of Califor nia, pleaded for a navy of such a size as to be capable of upholding at all times the honor of the country at home and abroad. Barthohl of Mis souri advocated a halt in the naval increase and the subtitution of arbi tration in matters of international dispute. The consideration of the naval bill had not concluded when the house adjourned. i GUILD ENDORSED '7.U' , ' Headed by Senators Lodge and Crane Ex-SecretaryJ. D. Long GO TO CHICAGO UNPLEDGED The Convention Adopted Resolutions Endorsing Governor Guild Can didate for Vice-Presidential Honors and Advocating "Revision Tariff." BOSTON, April 10,-The four men who will head the Massachusetts delegation to tfic Republican national convention will go to Chicago un pledged, These four delegates are United States Senators Lodge and Crane, ex-Secretary of the Navy John D. Long and Sidney 0. Bigney, a business man. The convention adopt ed resolutions endorsing Governor Gulid as a candidate for vice-presi- dential honors and advocating a "Wise revision" tariff. O i the itiestion of the Presidential candidacy of Secretary Taft, the plat form held thatthe convention recog nized that number of delegates to the convention desired his nomina tion ,ut that it was uncertain whether he resolution could be carried, and is presentation would certainly lead to a contest which would be injurious o the welfare of the party. The lank a adopted was admittedly a compromise which Lodge in his pecch explained was in the interest of p.-rty harmony as well as owing to his friendship for his colleague Sena or Crane and his desire for the success of wcutcnant-Uovernpr Draper next fall and for the perpetua- ion of the policies of President Roosevelt FMIsboro, OreApril 10, 'OS. i H. M. Lorentson, Secy. C. R. F. P. A., Astoria, Ore. Hoped to be with you but court de ; tains. The people of Oregon are iust.1 iThey will not vote to put five thousand! Columbia River fishermen out of employ-;! men t to satisfy the greed of five men at:: the Cascades and Celilo. They will not I vote to hamper the taking of good sound I fish fresh from the ocean in older tojen-i ; ; able all the fish in the river to be caught; ; in a star vine: and deteriorated condition by J : X . t f . i ' TIT t T Stne wneeis oi tne upper river, wnen tnex merits of your bill become known it will f I win success to the campaign of education f tm T. A. McBRIDE.J Kit FLEET UNDER WAY Will Sail for San Diego Saturday. on ITINERARY VERY COMPLETE DEFRAUDING CREDITORS. Transefrs Real Estate Without Real Consideration. CHICAGO, April 10-John Worth- ington, manager of the New Fowler Dry Good Co., owes debts amount ing to $250,000 and has sought to de traud his creditors, according to a petition for the appointment of a re ceiver filed yesterday in the United States District Court. Judge S. H. Bethea appointed Edward Duejl as receiver. ', According to the petition, Worth ington's assets, aside from $200,000 worth of real estate, he is accused of baving transferred to Robert Scheck, a real e-state dealer, without real con sideration, i property amounting , to $50,000. , JOINT COMMITTEE. WINNIPEG, April 10-The em- Tilnves in the tnechnnirnl flennrtmont ot the Canadian .Pacific Railroad have decided that a joint committee rep resenting every , department of the railroad should be organized to deal with the company on questions of wages and condition of labor. DEAL CLOSED FOR SHIPS. SAN FRANCISCO, April 10.- Vicc-Presidcnt Hill and General Pas scnger Agent Miller, of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, have closed a deal in Japan, it is said, for a trans-Pacific steamship service for the company's new overland railroad which is being built to Seattle through Montana, Idaho and Washington, and will arrive here on their way home to Chicago next week, iheir deal is with the Osaka Shoshen Kaisha Co., which will make the third Japanese steamship company plying between the Orient and American Pacific ports The Nippon Yuscn Kajsha runs out of Seattle in connection with Hill's Great Northern road, while thte Toyo Kisen Kaisha opcraes out of San Francisco port with the Pacific Mail, in connection with the Southern Pa cific and Santa Fe. . SUMMER SCHOOL. BERKELEY, Cal Aprii 10 Men eminent as educators will teach at the summer session of the University from June 22 to August 1, according to the announcement just made by Professor Charles M. Rciber, Dean of the Slimmer School, made taday. Instruction will be given not only by members of the regular university faculty but also by a number of dis tinguished men of letters and science from Eastern universities. , : OPERA HOUSE LEASED. .NEW.'YORK, April 10.-The Grand Opcra-House, one of the most famous of New York's many play houses, was yesterday leased from the Jay Gould Estate by Cohan and Harris and will hereafter be used for the production of neww plays by George Cohan and others. ' The lease is to run ten years. At 8 o'clock last night every seat in the Astoria opera house was occu pied by a representative citizen ,of this city intent on doing his duty by the imperilled salmon industry for which Astoria stands; of the 1200 present each represented a family of from two to ten people, and therefore the mass meeting may be classed as a splendid typical gathering of the brain, brawn and culture oi this section. They assembled to talk fish and fish-bills and never lost their cue for an instant. They were not talking for themselves; they knew the last and inner fact and figure of the fish business; but they talked to, and fpr, the State of Oregon, at large; the pith of discussion being the cowardly sham that has been thrust upon the electorate of the State. by the predatory wheel-fishers of the upper-river and upon which the voters over the State need honest enlightenment. Mayor Herman Wise presided as only he can preside; with life and spirit and perfect courtesy and good humor. He opened the session with a clear cut statement of the objec of. the meeting, the salvation of the salmon in dustry which the thousands of Astoria had built up, conserved and lived by; he told of the struggles through which it had passed; anl recounted the peril it is facing in the desperate efforts of the discredited fishers above tide water to fasten their iniquitous system upon the State and the craft; told of the glaring falsity of their plea and the diminution of the salmon through the agency r i the murderous wheels that absorb the mother-fish and her spawn along with the marketable salmon; told of the duty of (he hour as it presented itself to Astorians; and to clinch the matter, introduced the best informed man on thi Pacific Coast on all matters appertaining to the fishing business, theoretical and practical, Ed. Rosenberg, secretary of the United Fishermen of the Pacific Mr. Rosenberg was heartily received and plunged at once into a felicitous and appreciated address, from which, the last detail of specific information needed to amplify the claim of the gill-nctters to have salmon fishing stopped at tide-water, was forthcoming. He went into an expoistion of the cruel, ruinous injustice of the fish-wheel and its methods, as would have made the cars of its crafty exponents burn had they been there to hear it He showed how the industry was surely and steadily being throttled by the use of the fish-wheel in the spawning-fields of the Columbia; how five men,. maintaining these cormorantic devices, thrive and thieve upon the sources of supply to which 10,000 lives at this end of the river are devoted and upon which they are dependent; he told, simply and honestly, the reason for the filing of the gill nctters' bill for the initiative action of the people of Oregon at the June polls, the saving of one of the State's greatest industries. Mr. Rosenberg did no random talking; he backed his statements with docrmcntary evidence from the best authorities on the continent, by letters and telegrams and words of men profoundly learned and as profoundly in terested, chief of which is the despatch sent him yesterday by Judge Thomas A. McBride, of the Fifth Judicial District of Oregon, whose message covers with extraordinary simplicity and truth, the whole range and gamut of the controversy that has been forced upon the people by the men who have shamelessly fattened, upon the pregnant fish of the river seeking the shelter of the natural spawning grounds, and which heads this article. He told how the wheels were constructed, with heartless cunning, to lure the egg-bearing fish inio their maws, in the first instance, and the helpless fry and fingerlings of tho.se that got by, and the very baby-fish sent down from the seven hatch eries of Oregon and Washington; how five out of those .seven hatcheries had been abandoned because of the failure of egg and fry to pass the wheels either wtfy, and what the continuance of such killing methods mean to the State and to the thousands engaged in the business down here." And he used photographs, cast upon the cutains of the house to illustrate every point he made in this behalf. He made a splendid plea for the meansyto carry the truth into the home and conscience of the last voter of Oregon; he told of the help that had come to the committee in charge of this campaign; of its disappointments in cer tain quarters that stood pledged to the success of the movement; and he wound out a vigorous and wholesome story of the fish situation, with a manly plea for prompt and generous help for funds to carry on the work. ' He had no tale of reproach, nor doubting, nor fear to unfold; he was sanguine, logi cal, assured, and full of hope; and demonstrated that his whole ambition was to get the truth before the people who, remote from the river and the inter ests he is championing, are not so well informed on the vital subject and who may nuconsciously vote a sheer disaster upon the commonwealth unless they shall be intelligently apprised of the peril. His address was roundly applauded. During the course of his remarks on the failure of the local interests to stand by the work in hand, he said that, among others, the Columbia assist his committee and freely quoted Samuel Elmore m the unpleasant premise. Mr. Elmore who was present insisted that the speaker tell the rea son assigned for the Association's refusal to meet the engagement, and Mr. The Fleet Will Arrive in San Fran cisco at 2 O'clock May 6 Admiral Thomas Has Issued a Request Not to Serve Liquor to Sailor. , MAGDALENA BAY, April 8, via San Diego, April 10. The Atlantic fleet sails on Saturday at 4 p. m. for Sari Diego, the first of the California cities to extend a greeting to the battleships after their long sojourn in foreign water. The entire program for the trip from Magdalena to San Francisco occupying nearly one month's time has been mapped out even to the last detail of the time- of arrival and departure from the var ious ports. The fleets will arrive at San Francisco lightship May 5 at 9 p. nr. Departure on May 6 at noon and find anchorage in San Francisco harbor at 2 p. m. the same day. The formation of the fleet at each port is arranged. Admiral Thomas has issued a request to the people of California not to furnish the men with intoxicat ing liquors. - TO JOIN THE JESUITS. SHOT HIS PARTNER Insane Man Shoots His Partner and Kills Himself. ' PLEADED HARD FOR HIS LIFE Bishop Weller Resigns as Coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Wiscon- sin CHICAGO, April 10.-The Inter- Ocean today says: Reginald Heber Weller, Jr., Coad jutor Bishop of the Episcopal dio cese of Fond du Lac, Wis., formerly at St. Peter and St Paul's cathedral, this city, has resigned, and, according to a despatch received here will go to St. Louis to join the Jesuits. ' Previous to his consecration as Bishop, the Rt Rev. R. H. Weller served at St. Peter and St. Paul's cathedral, Chicago, and at Waukesha. Wis Since his consecration, he has served as pastor continuously at Stevens Point, Wis. Frank Diets Lies in the Hospital at Pendleton With a Gunshot Wound' in His Shoulder as Big as a Man's Fist SPOKANE, April 10.-A dispatch to the Spokesman-Review from Pen dleton says: Frank Dietz lies in the hosptial in that city with a shotgun wound in his shoulder as big as a man's fist and the remains of Joe Baterman, his assailant and partner were found burned to a crisp in the ruins of their cabin on an island in the Columbia River 30 miles north east of Pendleton where the men had squatted on a piece of land. The tragedy was result of a quarrel. After shooting Dietz, Baterman placed his unconsciouspartner in a wheelbarrow and went toward the river. Dietz re covered his senses and" Baterman, beat him with his fists and then went for a hatchet to finish him. When he" returned Dietz pleaded so hard for his life that Baterman agreed to spare his life and said he would kill himself. He first placed Dietz in the shade of a tree, but as Baterman walked to ward the cabin Dietz went in search of neighbors. Shortly after they heard two shots and saw smoke arising from the cabin. Baterman was un doubtedly insane. PRESIDENTS MESSAGE. COLLEGE ATHLETICS. 4 (Continued on page 8) University of Madison Victorious in Intercollegiate Gymnastics. CHICAGO, April 10. A dispatch to the Record Herald from Madison Wis-, says: That University of Wis consin easily won the annual meet of the Western Intercollegiate Gymnas tic Association here last night, scor ing total of 31 1-2 points. University of Chicago was second with 10 points, Minnesota third with 7 points and Nebraska fourth with 5 1-2 points. The entries from Washington Univer sity of St Louis did not appears MASS MEETING PROTEST. PANAMA, April 10. Great crowds including all classes, congregated last night in the Santa Ana Plaza at a mass-meeting to protest against the occupation of the town of Jurado, on the - frontier, by Colombian troops. Patriotic speeches were made and in dignation was expressed by a number of orators, some of whom went jas far as to recommend that the Pana- man , uovernment expel Colombians from the republic. There wa a strong sentiment against the proposed treaty with Co lombia!, , Later the crowds with the Pana- man flag flying and bands of music playing the National Anthem march ed to the lower section of the city. London Papers Comment Favorably on Position Taken by the President LONDON, April lO.-The Times; in an editorial this morning on Presi dent Roosevelt's message on Anarch ism, says that the President has en tered upon, a campaign that will com mand the sympathy and moral sup port of the civilized world. Fuller particulars of his proposals, says the Times, will be awaited with the deep est interest in all the states of the Old World and whatever may be thought of the prospects of his strug gle with this terrible evil, honest men everywhere will wish him victory in the fray. FOUR BATTLESHIPS. WASHINGTON, April 10-Roose- velt's well known desire that the building of four battleships shall be authorized by Congress at the present session May result in a special mes sage urging that action. OPPOSITION TO BILL. WASHINGTON, April 10. -Four representatives of large commercial interests were before the house com mittee on banking and currency to day, all opposing the Aldrich cur rency bill declaring it might result in much harm to the business inter tests of the country. McFARLAND-BRITT FIGHT. McFarland is Favorite i nthe Betting at 10 to 9. SAN FRANCISCO, April 10. Packy McFarland and Jimmy Britt, who will meet in the open air in the arena at Colma tomorrow afternoon for a 20-round bout, have both finshed a long siege of training and are pro nounced in excellent shape. ' The men will meet at 133 pounds. McFarland is the favorite 10 to 9. - ,