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C0VER8THE MORNING FIELD ONTHC LOWER COLUMBIA PUBLISHES FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT 33rd YEAR. NO. 97 ASTORIA, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1908 PRICE FIVE CENTS COST (IF THE CRUISE Bacon Wanted to Know What It Would Be NOTBEKNOWN FOR YEAR Hate, the Chairman of the Com mlttee on Naval Affairs, Said Difficult to State PREDICTS WAR IN TEN YEARS The Coit Will be Almost Million For the Fleet to go Through the Suet Canal Says Its Dangerous, and Very Expensive. WASHINGTON, April 21.-Bacon asked the cost of the cruie around the world. Hale, the chairman of the committee on naval affairs, said it was difficult to state, but he was satis- e . .i .i iL . . n t m t lit. - nea mm in wer vi fleet would be very great. The cost will not be known for a year. Bacon said he hoped the report that the fleet was to go around the world was in correct. He looked upon it as dan gerous and very expensive, that the cost would almost be a million for the fleet to go through the Sucx Canal alone. ' Mr. Money made an extended speech in which he said the danger of war in the Philippines are held by thin country all nations with depend encies were obliged to maintain great navies, that the Philippines had cost this country several hundred millions already and that the money would produce no material result of advantage to this country. He in stanced the San Francisco school troubles as an example of the rapidity with which the war clouds might overshadow the country and declared that "If we drop the Philippines, we .1 iL - .1 C ... m !i tltni AKAfin Vurop inc cnunvo vi war m mi wvn( nn.l M tliit th Tannnoc attitude On the school question' unjustified that she-was reaay "To provoke a quar rel." Money predicted that in ten years the "United States would have to fight. somebody," and said 'that "Whenever we tackle that little na tion we will have all we can do." "You have to keep that fleet there if you are to hold the Philippines." Lodge defended the policy of send ing the fleet to the Pacific Ocean and that great good had already resulted from the long cruise in teaching the fleet how to maintain itself away from the shipyards by making necessary repairs by its own . mechanics on board. Bevcridge advocated a greater navy than the United States now has and said before the fleet was started for the Pacific that there was talk of war, but after it reached the Pacific the war talk vanished. TRANSFUSION OF BLOOD. NEW YORK, Apr. 21-To save the life of Grover Brennan of Sheridan, Wyo,, who was unconscious from gas poisoning in the Putnam house, trans fusion of blood was resorted to at Bcllevue hospital, late last night. Brennan, who is a broncho buster, with the "Buffalo Bill" show, had lanneu uiu uic (S" who ma nuiu- brero. House surgeon H. C. Thatch er underwent the operation perform- a t cu. r. fl...4.,.t. CQ Dy Ur, f murium. an. jl iiaivu- er and the cowboy were placed side by side.' The incision wa's made in the surgeon's right arm and the pati ent's left arm. Brennan rallied im mediately and has a fair chance of re- ' covery the surgeons say. ' IN SOUTHERN WATERS. Fleet Still Having Fun Provided For , Them. LOS ANGELES, April 21.-Los Angeles continued today its long program of entertainment . for the sailors and officers of the battleship fleet, Thirty-five hundred bluejackets were in the landing parties which came asnore at tne various pons where the four divisions of the fleet are anchored, and pitched into the fun provided for them. A number of itocl.il events for the officers including a luncheon at the California Club had as a guest General Adna R, Chaffee. Tonight at Redondo, the Chamber of Commerce of that place gave a ban quet in honor of Rear Admrial Sperry, and other officers. TWO MORE LOST. SAN FRANCISCO, April 21.-Be- sides Charles C. Macclevcry who is reported lost in the wilderness of Lower California, somewhere be tween La 'Pa and Magdalena Bay, that also Mr. Taeger a rich cigar mer chant of Vera Cruz, who is said to have accompanied Maccleverly on his daring journey across Desert and over mountain to catch the fleet be fore it sailed for San Diego. No ord has come from either Mac cleverly or his companion, and the old Spanish guide, who had been hired to lead them on their 120 mile trip Is also missing. SUNDRY CIVIL BILL Will Probably Be Reported On Thursday Next ABUSE OF SECRET SERVICE The Insertion of This Clause Was Prompted by Oft Repeated Com plaintt That Secret Servicf Men Were Used in Detective Work. WASHINGTON, April 21.-The House committee on appropriations has inserted in the sundry civil bill which probably will be reported Thursday of this week a clause pro hibiting the use of any money ap propriated by the bill for secret serv ice other than guarding the president and the detection and prevention of counterfeiting. The insertion of this clause was prompted by the complaint oft repeated, that the secret service is being used by the various depart ments "In shadowing" and detective work not contemplated by the law. EASTERDAY SUICIDE. Daughter of former Governor of Kan sas Committs Suicide. CHICAGO April 21.-Mrs. Jessie Llewellyn Call, the daughter of a for mer governor of Kansas, who com mitted suicide on Easterday, left an unfinished novel which her friends be lieve would have made her well known had she lived to finish it. The manuscript, which is said to be in the keeping of Miss Louise Llewel lyn, Mrs. Call's sister, now is Osk- aloosa, Iowa, deals with the political life that centered around her father. It is partly because of the existence of this, manuscript belief that she made up her mind to take her own life suddenly after a sleepless night or because she had been made es pecially despondent by an acute at tack of her nervous malady. They believe that premeditation was only a matter of a day or two. TWO AUTOISTS KILLED. DEARBORN. Mich., April 21.-F. J. .:. Draper and William ( waicott, both of Milan, Mich., were instantly killed here today by their automo bile being struck hy a tram. MI MOIIOI CONFERENCE Fourtccntb Annual Meet ing to Be Held in May INTERESTING PROGRAM Will Include a Thorough Presen tation of the Results of the Second Hague Conference MANY WELL KNOWN SPEAKERS Program Will Include a Thorough Presentation of the Results of the Hague Conference and Relations of Colleges to Arbitration Movement MOHONK, N. Y., April 21.-rThe Lake Mohonk conference on interna tional arbitration will hold its 14th annual meeting here May 20-22, with John W. Foster, ex-secretary of state, as presiding officer. The pro gram will include a thorough presen tation of the results of the second Hague conference and of the recent Central American peace conference, speakers on these topics, including James Brown Scott, solicitor of the State Department and member of The Hague Conference; Joaquin B. Calvo, Minister of Costa Rica; Luis F. Corca, Minister of Nicaragua; John Barrett, director of the Bureau of American Republics; Dr. Paul S. Rcinsch of Wisconsin; Dr. Benjamin F. Trueblood of Boston and Profes sor Wm. R, Shepard of New York. Bnron Kogaro Takahira, the Japan ese Ambassador; Dr. Leo S. Howe of Philadelphia; Richard Bartholdt pres ident of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, and Theodore E. Burton, Congressman from Ohio, who have been invited to address the meeting. The relations of colleges to the ar bitrationriiovemeiit will be d'scussed by President Wheeler of the Univer sity of California; Chancellor White of the University of Georgia; Presi dent Van Hise, of the University of Wisconsin; President Swain of Swarthmore College, and others. Many prominent business men, in cluding William McCarroll, J. Edward Simmons, James Speyer and Frank A. Vanderlip of New York; E. A. Benson of Omaha and J. Van Kleek, of Denver, will be present. About SO chambers of commerce and boards of trade, representing all parts of the country, will send delegates. MORE BROWNSVILLE. ' WASHINGTON, April 21. Call ing attention , to the Grand Army button he wore in the lapel of his coat and insisting that he had no prejudice against the negro soldiers, some of whom he claimed as com rades, Warner, in the Senate to day declared his, conviction that Brownsville, Texas, had been shot up by the negro soldiers of the 25th In fantry in 1906. He presented an ar gument to sustain his belief of the guilt of the negro soldiers based on the testimony which he quoted. He will conclude tomorrow. The naval appropriation bill was amended to provide 20 per cent, in crease in the pay of officers on the retired as well as the active list. During the discussion of the naval bill Bacon sharply criticised the pol icy of sending the naval flotilla around the world. The Senate adopted the conference report on the Indian appropriation bill. FORTY-TWO DEAD. Many Burned in Wreckage Which Takes Fire. MELBOURNE,. April il.-Torty-two bodies have been taken out of the wreck caused by the collision April 19 of two trains from Ballarat and Bendigo, respectively, at Braybrook Junction, about eight miles from Melbourne. It is believed that several others are still buried under the debris. The number of persons injured is placed at 88. Many of the victims had entered the Ballarat train at Braybrook, and were just about settled in their seats when the crash came. The conductor had signaled to the engineer to start the train and was in the act of stepping into the car when he saw the ap proaching Bendigo train. He sprang aside in time to save himself. The coaches caught fire and many of the victims were burned beyond recogni tion. A member of the fire brigade found the bodies of his two sisters buried in the wreckage. Several of the victims died as they were being lifted from the wreck. The driver of the Bendigo train says that he saw the signals and when the brakes fail ed to work he reversed his engine, but was unable to check the train. BASEBALL SCORE. At Spokane--Aberdcen 6, Spokane At Tacoma No game; rain. At Seattle No game; rain. STEVEDORING FIRM Brown and McCabe Sell Con trolling Interest ROTHSCHILDS & CO. BUYERS The Price is 6aid to be in the Neigh borhood of $75,000 Same Parties Figuring on Buying an Interest in McCabe and Hamilton. SEATTLE, April 21.-Materially altering the stevedoring situation of Puget Sound and the Columbia River recent business moves of W. J. Jones, of this city, general manager for Rothschild & Co., have made the firm one of the most prominent operating in the ports of Coast waters. Among other things, Jones has purchased a controlling interest in Brown & Mc Cabe, the stevedoring firm of Port land and Astoria, in business for more than 30 years, the price being in the neighborhood of $75,0000. Jones is in Portland at, the present time. His partner ,F. A. Bartlett, declined to discuss the. matter or give any details of the deal. It is also reported Jones has secured the option of purchasing all the capital stock of McCabe & Hamilton, the well known stevedores of this city, Tacoma and British Co lumbia, the cosideration for which is said to be $100,000. Acquisition of the Astoria, Portland and Puget Sound interests with those already controll ed by Jones places the firm in the forefront of employers on this coast, making it employer of nearly 2000 men in various ports. BRONSON HOWARDS ILLNESS. NEW YORK, April 21.-Bronson Howard, the dean of American poli tics has been seriously ill for several ! weeks, although the facts are just re ceived. Mr. Howard has been ill for four weeks. A friend of Mr. Howard explained last night that the family did not wish to have the fact of his illness become known. He has been suffering with the same rheumatism with which he suffered while on his trip to Egypt and at one time the physicians who were much alarmed. However, he is n&w thought to be on the road to recovery. His advanced age has made the attack more dan gerous than it would have been for a younger man. , MUNICIPAL RESEARCH Wm. H. Allen Denounces Private Charities MISDIRECTED EFFORTS Woman Suffrage Would Simply Mean a New Golden Era for Confidence Men AID PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICE Members of the Club Were Told That They Were Incompetent, Inefficient, Uneconomical and That Their Char ities Were Just So Much Wasted. . CHICAGO, April 21.-The mem bers of the Social Service Club were told in an address last night by Wm. H. Allen, secretary of the Bureau of Municipal Research of New York, that they were incompetent, ineffic ient and uneconomical. They were told that the charities which they represent are just so much misdirected and misdirecting effort and wasted money. Mr. Allen contended that woman suffrage would simply mean a new golden era for confidence men and the perpetuation in office of grafters and incompetents. He declared that private social ser vice was more detail, expensive and often necessarily inefficient work while public social service was whole sole, economical and always possible of being made efficient Bad govern ment, possible because of the misdi rected energies of those engaged in private social service, he said, manu factures more distress than all the private social service in the country can care. VESSEL FOR VENEZULA. WASHINGTON, April 21,-An American war vessel is to be sent to Venezuelan waters, but her mission is entirely peaceful. Closing the port of Laguaira because of the existance of what is believed to be bubonic plague there has made it necessary for the state department to have at hand a vessel that can be used as a dispatch boat. , . UNPLEDGED DELEGATES. BOSTON, April 21. Unpledged delegates to the national republican convention were elected by the twelfth Massachusetts convention here today, though they advised the delegates that the republicans of that district favored Taft. HOSPITAL BURNED. BIG RAPIDS, Mich., April 21. Fire today lestroyed the Mercy hos pistal here which was a $75,000 estab lishment. All of the 30 patients and the 40 sisters of mercy escaped with out injury. ' FLYNN WINS. LOS ANGELES, April 21.-The heavyweight fight between Jim Flynn and Battling Johnson in 10 rounds was according to Los Angeles ordinance a draw. There was no de cision but Flynn had all the best of it. CAIRO "WET." CAIRO, 111., April 21. Cair went "wet" todav bv a maioritv of 3352 in the local option election. HURRYING TROOPS. Threatening Situation In Persia Alarms Russia. TJFLIS, April 21 -On account of the threatening situation on the Per sian frontier and the urgent demand for reinforcements received from the commanders of the Russian forces in that district, 2000 men have been sent from here into the disturbed territory. These reinforcements will take, sev eral days to reach the scene of hostili ties, which is 60 miles from the near est railroad point through a difficult country. No further news from the commanders of the ; detachments at Belesuvar 'and Shirin, which are menaced by the Kurdish brigands, has been received here. Information has come in that communication along an important trade route south ward from the Caspian Sea has been interrupted by an uprising of the bandit population. As a result, cara vans are afraid to venture out of Len koran. . SHOULD BE INCREASED. NEW YORK, April 21.-The rail road freight rates should be increas ed was the concensus of opinion at a conference of the presidents of near ly all the Eastern trunk lines held at the offices of the Trunk Line Asso ciation. No final actions was taken in the matter, which will be finally further considered by the Association. COMMITTEE NAMED Speaker Cannon Appoints Com mittee of Six . TO PROBE THE PAPER TRUST Although Several Hours Were Frit tered Away in Roll Calls the Day in the House Was One of Comparative Activity. WASHINGTON, April 21.-Although several hours were frittered away in the roll calls, the day in the House was one of comparative activ ity. Several measures .of importance were put through including the reso lution of Cannon providing - for an " investigation of the paper trust and in pursuance of its provision Cannon united a committee of six to conduct the investigation: Mann of Illinois, Miller of Kansas, Stafford of Wis consin. Bannon of Ohio, Simms of Tennessee, and Ryan of New York. The Democrats to a unit voted against the resolution on the decla- xation of Williams that he did not be lieve any effort would be made to arrive at the truth. Another measure of interest to importers practically creates the board of general apprais ers at New York a trial court in mat tes pertaining to the customs duties. appeals theefrom be taken to circuit court of appeals instead of circuit court as heretofore. PATENT LAWS. The Reatil Druggists Want Them , Changed. CHICAGO, April 21. Radical changes in the patent laws as they ap ply to the drug business will be ask ed by the Association of Retail Drug gists if at its coming convention the members concur in, the recommenda tion' adopted yesterday by their ex ecutive in session. An effort will also be made to bring the pure food laws Jof the various states into conformity with the federal pure food law. , The) main objection of the drug gists is to be patenting of chemicals and W medicinal substances instead of the process of manufacture. It is also proposed to ask congress to for bid the granting of any patent to a foreigner which an American could not obtain in the foreigner's country.