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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.
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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.
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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. - ,