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COVCR8THC MORNING FIILO ONTHE LOWER COLUMBIA
PUBLISH! full associated prcss report
33rd YEAR, NO. 99
ASTORIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1908
PRICE FIVE CENTS
J.T,
ROSS
Gill
Marlon County Jury Con
' vlcts Him-
IMPARTIAL SUMMING UP
Judge Burnett Consumed Only
Twenty-Five Minutes in His
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laiKiome jury .
WENT INTO SALIENT DETAILS
I.
Wl!co McCamant Resumed Hl Ar
gument lor Mr. Ron on the Re
sumption ol the Trial in the After
noon and Finished Shortly After 2
SALEM,. April 23. J. Thorburn
Rom, the former president of the de
funct Title, Guarantee & Trut Co.,
of Portland, was this afternoon con
victd of larceny in having converted
to his own uc $288,000 of itate school
fund of the State of Oregon which
had been placed in his custody, as the
president of the bank by State Treas
urer Steel. ' The jury was out an hour
and thirty-five minutes. Sentence
will be Imposed Monday.
The State law provides as a penalty
for this crime, imprisonment in the
penitentiary from one to IS years, to
gether with a fine equal in the amount
to twice which the offender is proved
to have stolen. Immediately after
the hank cloud its doors, Ross and the
other officers of the bank were arrest
ed and tater indicted for the larceny
of state funds.
Although numerous demurrers were
interposed by the defendants, all ob
jections, one after another were swept
aside except the one .which charged
that a general bias existed in Mult
nomah county and on their urging that
a fair trial could not be secured in
that county, the court sent the cases
' a
o Marion county on a change ot
venue to be tried before the state cir
cuit court in this city. The Ross case
which was first assigned to trial came
to a hearing on Monday last.
The cac is 'of added interest be
cause Ross has been" a ' prominent
member of the First Presbyterian
Church of Portland and was because
before coming to that city from Ohio,
but 20 years ago, was a Presbyterian
clergyman. Failing eyesight compell
ed Ross to abandon the ministry.
Judge Burnett in his instructions to
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ine Jury gave wiuii was vwniuv.v ...
impartial summing up of the evidence,
but the effect was taken as an intima
tion that the jurymen should disre
gard the technical pleas' that had
been raised by lawyers for the de
fense. Judge Burnett consumed only
25 minutes in his talk, which opened
at 2:40 and ended at 3:05, but during
that time he went into all the salient
details of the evidence. Judge Pipes
spoke briefly in conclusion- for the
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CONDITION OF BANK.
-When it Went Under Last Fall.
PORTLAND, April 23.-J-There was
on deposit in the Title, Guarantee &
Trust Co., something over two and a
half millions , when ' the' bank went
under last fall. In this total was al
most $400,000 of the state money be
longing to various funds of which
$288,000 was money derived from- the
sale of state -school land. None of
this, nor in fact was any other deposit
lost by reason of the bank's failure
Various bondsmen and bonding com
panies made good the state's losses. ;
William M. Ladd, head of the bank
ing firm of Ladd & Tilton, of this
city asKitmcd the remaining liabilities
of the bank.
Ladd's action was inspired by the
reason of his having previously been
president of the Title Bank and was
a stockholder in the institution at the
time of its failure. There was further
reason that tile bank was still using
Ladd's name on its stationery.
Immediately after the failure of the
bank, the president, J. Thorburn Ross
and Vie other officers of the institu
tion were arrested and charged with
larceny by the conversion of the state
funds.
The next of the cases to be tried
will be that against T. T. Burkhardt,
the treasurer of the defcunct institu
tion, which Is set for May 4.
ELECTIVE COURSES. .
CHICAGO, April 23-Higher edu
cation in commercial knowledge is
offered for the first time in Chicago
in the new department of the West
ern University. 'The first announce
ment of the new school was made
yesterday.
Elective courses in language,
science, and mathematic, with special
attention to their relation to business
enterprise, will be offered. The course
will lead to a diploma.
ORGANIZED CHARITY
Denounced as a Mere Bid for
Notoriety
BY ARCHBISHOP OF ST. LOUIS
The Prelate's Arraignment Was
Made in a Lecture Under the Au
spices of House of Good Shepherd
Before an Audience of 2500 Persons
CHICAGO, April 23. Organized
charity was denounced as a mere bid
for notoriety 'and theaverage philan
thropist was described as a modern
Pharisee last night by the Most Rev.
John G. Glennon, archibishop of St
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The prelate's arraignment was
made in a lecture under the auspices
of the House of the Good Shepherd
and before an audience of 2500 per
sons. ,' v '
"It is a recognized fact that we fast
are reaching a social crisis," said
Archbishop Glcnnon, "with our mil
lionaires on one hand and the pauper
on the other. When that day comes
the philanthropist, sitting in his up
holstered chair will not arise to the
occasion. He will be told that it is
not a lecture that is wanted, but that
it is bread. There are today philan1
thropists-so-called, who believe that
by giving the people , libraries,' that
they might study our present day
philosophy they are accomplishing
great good. And there are others who
spend their time in social settlement
work or lecturing on the child prob
lem, constantly they seek notoriety.
Let them go on giving away their li
braries' and establishing their social
settlements but I want you to under
stand that philanthropy divorced from
Christ is not charity, and I say, my
friends, that the philosophy taught in
your schools and universities today is
just as brutal as it is repugnant. This
philosophy of evolution, emanating
from the brain of Darwin and Spen
cer, makes for brutality and retards
progress. What is the use of' strug
gling if there is nothing to be at
tained? Where is there an appearance
of charity in this system? The strong
succeed and the weak perish. ,
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ATH7fES
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For Championships of the
Pacific Coast '
FIVE CLUBS-FORTY HEN
Portland, Seattle, Spokane, San
Francisco and Oakland Are
Entered for Events
0NLYTW0 EVENTS ON TONIGHT
Wrestling and Boxing Matches Will
Constitute the Principal Events
Ritter in the 105-Pound Class In
jured His Hand, and is Out of it
PORTLAND, April 23.-WrestIing
and boxing bouts for the amateur
championships of the Pacific Coast
opened here tonight under the au
spices of the Multnomah Amateur
Athletic Club. Forty athletes repre
senting the athletic clubs of fort
land, Seattle, Spokane, San Fran
cisco and Oakland are entered for the
various events. Only two champion
ships, the 105 pound boxing and the
158 pound wrestling," were on for to
night's card, the other events being
preliminaries. Wrestling results 115
ffbund class, Edward Wells, Y. M. C
A., defeated Fred B. Hussdy of the
Seattle Athletic Club.
135 pound class, V. Venable of the
Seattle Athletic Club, secured a fall
over Otto Ott, of the Multnomah
Amateur Athletic Club, one minute
and fourteen seconds, and F. A.
Brownell of the Reliance Athletic
Club of Oakland was given the de
cision over E. DK Smith of Multno
mah.
The 158 pound championship was
won by J. Johnson of . the Seattle
Athletic Club over G, J. Anloff of
Reliance, after two six minute and one
three minute bouts. ,
Boxing The Pacific Coast cham
pionship for 105 pounds was won by
Heine Ritter of the Spokane Ath
letic Club over Richard Hewett, un
attached, the referee stopping the bout
in the second round. In this bout
Ritter injured his hand and will not
be able to compete further during the
tournament.
Olmar Dranga of Multnomah -was
awarded the decision over.L. Gran
fild of the plympic Club, San Fran
cisco, after four rounds of great fight
ing. William Speck, of Seattle, was
given the decision over H. Niecken
of Multnomah. , The police stopped
the bout just: before the bell in the
third sounded, Niecken being badly
beaten.
C. CT Ralph, unattached, defeated
Tom Corbett, unattached, in the 145
pound class.
Fred Sax, unattached, of Portland,
won 1 over Larry Stokes of the Re
liance Athletic Club in three rounds.
Stokes fought out of his class, being a
145 pound man! ,
E. C. Johnson of Multnomah was
given the. decision over L. M. Mad
den,' Multnomah, in heavyweight di
vision. , , , .,, .; ' 4'.-. ...
INVESTIGATION WANTED.
WASHINGTON, April s-Representative
Carlin is preparing to intro
duce a resolution in the house calling
upon the secretary of war to make an
investigation into the removal of the
name of Jefferson Davis from "Cabin
John Bridge." -
Mr. Carlin's resolution is the fore
runner of a second, resolution he will
issue directing the name to be restor
ed to its former place on the bridge.
TO BE RELIEVED.
May 9 is Time Set to Relieve Admiral
Evans Thomas Gets Orders.
WASHINGTON, April 23-Ordcrs
have been issued at the Navy Depart
ment late yesterday detaching Rear
Admiral Charles M. Thomas from
duty as commander of the second
squadron on board the battleship
Minnesota, to duty in command of
the U. S. Atlantic fleet on board the
Connecticut. This change is to take
effect on May 9, when Rear Admiral
Evans is to be relieved- i
Rear Admiral W. H. Emory is dis
charged from duty in command of
second division, first squadron will
command the fourth division first
Rear Admiral C. S. Sperry is relieved
of the fourth second squadron and
will command the second squadron.
Captain Scaton Schroeder is detached
from command of the battleship Vir
ginia to command the second division,
first squadron. , Capt. Alexander
Sharp is relieved from duty at the
Washington navy yard and will take
command of the battleship Virginia.
BASEBALL SCORES.
At Spokane Spokane 4, Aberdeen
5.' " '
At Seattle and Tacoma No games;
rain.l
At Los Angeles Los Angeles 4,
San Francisco 2.
At San Francisco Portland 5, Oak
land 6. -
Never Been Greater Than It Is
- at Present
NOT CONFINED TO SAILORS
Marked Increase Among Those Who
Travel and Even Among Those
Who Live at a Distance From the
Influences of the Sea.
WASHINGTON, April 231-Tatoo-
ing in the navy, as shown by the rec
ords of the receiving ship Independ
ence, is the top of an interesting con
tribution to the current issue of the
United States Navy Medical Bulletin,
contributed by Surgeon Ammen Far-enholt-
It says that while tatooing
originated as an adornment of uncivi
lized peoples, it is far less common
among them to day, than it was form
erly, partly through the influence of
missionaries, of public sentiment and
government interference, as is at pres
ent in the case of Japan. On the
other hand the total extent cjf this
habit," Dr. Farenholt says, has prob
ably never been greater than it
is at the present. It may be there is
a slight decrease in the percentage
bf a tatooed person adopting the sea
as a means of livlihood, there is cer
tainly a marked increase among those
who travel and ejen among those who
live at a distance from the influence
of the sea. There is hardly any large
city, but has one or more professional
tatooers. Dr. Farennolt examined the
enlistment records of 3572 men, being
the enlistment ,on the Independence
J for eight and a half years,
j It shows that the percentages found
. tatooed on examination for second and
j subsequent enlistments was 53.61 and
the percentage found tatooed on ex
amination for first enlistment was
2301. The opinion expressed that
about 60 per cent of persons who
have served over ten years in the
navy are tatooed.
REPLEVINED HIS WIFE,
COLUMBIA, Tenn., April 23.-W!
G. Riggins, a white man, replevined
his wife, formerly Ada Templeton,
from her parents yesterday. Esquire
Farriss required a bond of twice the
value of the poperty in question, and
Riggins placed the value of $10 on
his wife, giving bond in the sum of
$20. . . '
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ILLINOIS
DEMOCRACY
Hot Fight in Resolutions
Committee
ADOPTED THE UNIT RULE
Instead of Naming the Usual
Four Delegates and Alter
nates, Eight Chosen
GREATEST PERSONAL LIBERTY
Resolution Endorsing Bryan Was
Adopted With Hearty Enthusiasm
and a Flattering Demonstration
Followed the Action.
SPRINGFIELD, 111., April 23.-
The Illinois Democracy today adopt
ed the unit rule and instructed the
delegates to the Denver convention to
vote for Bryan and use "All honor
able means'' to secure his nomina
tion. After a hot fight in the reso
lutions' committee which was carried
into the convention the party adopted
a plank in the platform declaring in
favor of the "Greatest personal lib
erty to individuals, provided such lib
erty did not infringe Upon the rights
of other people. ' Instead of naming
the usual four delegates and alter
nates at large to the national conven
tion, it was decided to- send eight, al
lowing each man half a vote. The
electors at large were also chosen. A
resolution 'endorsing Bryan was
adopted with hearty enthusiasm and a
flattering demonstration followed thj
action. For all that however, it was
not worded entirely to the satisfac
tion of Bryan's most enthusiastic sup
porters, and in the last few moments
of the convention Judge Owen P.
Thompson, of Jacksonville, declaring
that Bryan had "Been sold out" de
manded that a stronger resolution be
passed. He desired to have the in
structions so worded that Illinois
would be bound to support Bryan as
long as his name was before the con
vention- His efforts met the usual
fate of new business sprung on weary
and hungry delegates and anxious to
catch the trains for home. It was
quickly and overwhelmingly defeated.
The fight over the personal liberty
or liquor plank was warm and long.
Nineteen members of the committee
report urging that it be stricken en
tirely fromihe platform.
The convention sustained the ma
jority report by a vote of 849 to 686
of which 535 votes came from Cook
county.
NAVY BILL.
Senator Piles Proposes an Amend
ment Increasing Battleships.
WASHINGTON,' April 23.-As the
Senate was to conclude its considera
tion of the naval appropriation bill
today, Senator Piles of Washington
proposed an amendment increasing
from two to four, the number of new
battleships to be authorized. As sev
eral Senators desired to speak on the
amendment the further consideration
of the bill was postponed until to
morrow. An amendment to the naval
bill, was adopted appropriating $7,
000,000 to begin construction on the
two ships authorized by the bill as it
passed the house. A spirited debate c
curred on the amendment for a re
striction of the purchase of materials
for the construction of battleships and
submarines to those of . domestic
manufacture. The-amendments to re
move the restriction from the bill
were defeated, Hale stating that since
the investigation of the steel - trust
some years ago the price of steel ar
mor had been reduced $16 per ton.
Bevcridge declared that the United
States pays less for its armor plate
than any other nation excepting
Japan' :. ' '';'';,":
S.enator Raynor spoke today on the
constitutional rights of the state and
executive encroachment. He insisted
that the commerce act of constitution
had been 'interpreted as applying to
the industrial lifevof the county to a
greater degree than was contemplated
by the framers of the constitution and
regretted the tendency of the Demo-
crats to look upon the President as
their guide and declared that the
President could not be accepted as his
"Messiah." ' -
QUIT THE HOSPITAL.
NEW YORK, April 23. Because,
they allege, they have been fed on too
monotonous a diet of tough roast beef
and butter of more than ordinary
strength, six young internes of the
Long Island College , hospital have
quit that institution, leaving the hos
pital with but two physicians to look
after its numerous patients. Last
night following the delivery of an ul
timatum the six physicians took their
suit'eases in hand and left the build
ing. During the night the two re
maining physicians were kept exceed
ingly busy in the different wards and
the ambulance was left without a
surgeon, Assistant Superintendent
Talmadge, having to climb upon the
back of the vehicle answering the
calls until midnight
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Only One Survivor of Family of
Five
FIERCE PRAIRIE FIRE'S RAYAGE
Brave Struggle of the Girl to Save
the Mother and Children After Her
Father Had Lost His Life Fighting
the Fire.
VANCOUVER, B. C, April 23.-
A dispatch from Battleford, Saskatch
ewan says that Anna Mathews is the
only survivor of a family of five as
the result of the prairie fires in the
Tramping lake district Her father
went to fight the flames which were
creeping on the little home and per
ished in the attempt. 'The house took
fire and Anna carried her five young
er brothers and sisters to a place of
safety. Then she returned to get her
mother but was too late. When she
returned to where she had left the
children she found they had wandered
into the fire and perished.
TO FILE SUITS.
Attorney-General Authorized to File
' Suits in Land Grant Cases.
WASHINGTON, April 23. By an
overwhelming vote of 245 to 8 the
House today after several hours of
discussion adopted without an amend
ment the Senate joint resolution au
thorizing the attorney-general to file
suits against the O. & C. Railroad for
the forfeiture o'fthe whole or part of
the land grants in the western part of
Oregon. The sentiment in th house
was practically unanimous that the
suits would work no hardship on the
bonna fide purchasers of homesteads
from the company. The resolution
was introduced into "the Senate by
Tillman and has passed that body.
ENDORSES CULBERTSON BILL.
BUTTE, April 23. The Mon
tana Stockgrowers' Convention at
Miles City has adopted resolutions
endorsing the Culbertson bill and urg
ing its passage; that Congress be
memorialized to "exact a law which
shall prohibit any railroad company
advancing rates or fares except upon
the approval of the Interstate Com
merce Commission; endorsing the
work of the department of agricul
ture. ..
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