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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1908)
1 . irt o tlPUBUSHft FULL ' 33rd YEAR. NO. 106 NATHAN VOLFF IS BEATEN TO DEATH The Crime Was Discovered by the Night Watchman Who Noticed That the Customary Light Was Not Burning WOLFF CARRIED A LARGE STOCK OF DIAMONDS MRS. WOLFF ALARMED AT THE NON-APPEARANCE AT HOME OF HER HUSBAND ARRIVED ON THE SCENE JUST AS THE WATCHMAN DID HE SUSPECTED SOMETHINO WAS WRONG POLICE HAVE NO CLUE. PORTLAND. May 1-Nathan Wolff, a pawnbroker and jeweler who hat been doing business in Portland for twenty-five yean, wai horribly murdered by robben tonight. Wolf! evidently was first ibot in the neck and then beaten to death with a hatchet.' His face and head wai lit erally hacked to piccei. There if no doubt that robbery was the only motive for the crime. The "Pledge" afe and cash drawer had been rifled, lut the jewelry safe apparently was unmolested. Wolff carried a large stock of diamonds. It is believed the robbers secured jewelry and money to the 'amount of $1700. The crime was discovered by the nightwatch man, who noticed that the customary Covering the Entry of the Fleet Into Frisco FORMIDABLE NAVAL DISPLAY Admiral Evans Calls For a Report and Recommendations For Im provement In Turret System Based - Upon Experiences of Practices. MONTEREY, Cal, May l.-The '.Atlantic fleet steamed into this port today. The residents of all the set tlements in the vicinity made the occasion a holiday. New orders were issued today covering the entry of the fleet through the Golden Gate, at .San Francisco on Wdnesday next, ' which provides for the most for midable and picturesque naval display in the history of the nation. It is now ordered that all vessels of the Pacific fleet, shall joint the Atlantic battleships outside the Golden Gate and steam with them through the harbor entrance to the anchorage in the -bay where the review of the navy is to be held. Practically the entire NEW ORDERS SUED NEW BRITISH CRUISER MAKES 28 KNOTS ON SPEED TRIAL GLASGOW, May l.-It is unoffic ially reported that the new cruiser Indomitable, now undergoing her speed trials, has beaten all records, making 23 knots over a measured mile of the Clyde and 26 1-4 knots AttOCIATID PfMr t'"'" J m -a light wai not burning. He felt the dor and it opened to Ma touch. Just at this juncture Mrs. Wolff, alarmed at the non-appearance at home of her husband, arrived on the scene. Sus pecting that something was' wrong the watchman told Mrs. Wolff to re main outside while he investigated. Turning on the store fights, a hor rible , tone confronted him. Blood was everywhere and on the floor in a back room lay Wolffs terribly mangled body. The only clue found on the prem ises was a bloodstained collar and necktie. The crime was not discov ered until several hours after it' had been committed and the police be lieve they will have a hard time locat ing the murderers. fighting force of the navy will be in me great column, nn iinyuriuui meeting today on board the Vermont of the turret officers called by the direction of Admiral Evans to con sider and report recommendations for an improvement in the turret systems of the battleships based upon the experience of the battle practices last fall and the record of the target practice in Magdalena Bay. DR. BRYAN HOPEFUL. NEW YORK, May 1-The anxiety due the stories of Grover Cleveland's condition which is said to be the re sult of a cancer is but slightly les sened by the announcement of Dr. Bryan, who has attended the patient for years that the patient was "All right" and that the reports from Lakewood were favorable. Dr. Bryan declined to state the nature of the complaint from which the former president is suffering. PROBABLY FATALLY SHOT. SPOKANE, May I. -At Elk, Wash., tonight Mrs. North, the mis tress of the Montgomery Hotel ' at that place was shot and perhaps fa tally by an unknown assassin. She was going from the lobby to her room which the shot was fired from the outside. There is no clue to the assassins. Mrs. North had been liv ing apart from her husband, whose whereabouts are unknown. rl V A 1 in the continuous stemming trial. The Indomitable is fitted with' turbines and her contract speed is only 25 knots.- She is of 17,750 tons and 530 fact in length. She was launched on March 16 last. 1 ASTORIA, OREGON, LOSES $63,000 LAREDO, Texas, May 1. Wells, Fargo Express Company has reported to the authorities of Torreon, Mexico, of the loss of $63, 000 of Mexican currency which they claim was taken from through safe on the City of Mexico car. Two arrests have been made but the authorities do not believe the men have the money. It appears that an agent of the company boarded the train between Mexico City and Torreon and afterward left the train. He is said to be the only man who was in the car who knew the combination of the safe. He has not been arrested. , . mmmm4mmmmmmwMi i LEWISTON HIGH WINS. In Competition With Fifteen Other Schools. Tenth Anniversary Will Be Fittingly WALLA WALLA, May . l.-The. Observed. Lewiston High School won the tri-' 1 ' ,mv, . state fnterscholastic field and track' WASHINGTON, May 1-Today meet at Whitman Collge today in " the tenth anniversary of the mem ... .. . -.i -i- nrahlo hattlo nf Manila Bav and to- competition witn tne is omer scnouis of the Northwest. Lewiston secured 40 points, Spokane second with 32, Pendleton third with 30, Waitsburg "o Bl ,a,nous BUU fourth with 11, and Prosser fifth with many of his officers, will gather to eight points. celebrate the occasion. Among those j Ora Jay, of Pendleton, won the'lnt warriors who ten years ag0 individual cKp securing 21 points out won one of the most decisive wo of the 30 made by his school. ,l0"c in histor'. and who have s.g- 100-yard dash-Storer, Lewistown, their intention of being pres- lst; Mersey, Lewiston, 2nd; GWdon, ct at the dinner tonight are: , Pendleton, 3rd. Time, 10 2-5. j Admiral Dewey, Rear Admirals Pole vault Jay, , Pendleton, 1st; CoghlandLamberton, Walker and Monroe, Spokine, 2nd; Miller, Walla' Ford; Medical Director Wise,. Pay Walla, 3rd. Ten feet four inches. ' Director Gait, Representative Loud Half-mile run Severyns, t'rosser, of Michigan, w'ho was Assistant Pay 1st; Fancher, Spokane, 2nd; Luck, 1 master on the McCulIough, Lt. Corn Spokane, 3rd. Time, 2:07. Inlanders Brady, Bodderich, Price, Ir- . 220-yard dash Storer, Lewiston, 1 win, Scott, Kavanaugh, Butler, and 1st; Cohn, Spokane, 2nd; Walters, 1 Doddridge; Col. Berryman, U. S. M. Island City, 3rd. Time, 23 2-5. JC, and Pay Inspectors Martin and 120-yard hurdles Jay Pendleton, ' Price. Many nlore officers who took 1st; Ekert, Lewiston, 2nd; Engelhorn, ! port in that sea fight cannot be pres Spokane, 3rd. Time, 15 4-5. lent, some of them being with the fleet Throwing discus Engelhorn, Spo-'now in the Pacific. ' kane, 1st; Jay Pendleton, 2nd; Con-j Tonight the battle will be fought over, Waitsburg, 3rd. Distance, 103. all over again but with less nervous feet 6 inches. ness on the part of the officers and 50-yard dash Hersey, Lewiston, 1st; Eckert, Lewiston, 2nd; Thomson, North Yakima, 3rd. Time, 5 3-5. High Jump Jay, Pendleton, 1st; Bowers, Walla Walla, 2nd; Monroe, Spokane, third. Distance, 5 feet 7 inchs. Mile run Fancher, Spokane, 1st; DEMOCRATIC WASHINGTON, May l. The house spent today in considering and passing paragraph by paragraph the sundry appropriation bill. The objection by the Democratic members in pursuance of i minority filibuster to unanimous consent, defeated the passage of the bill for the printing and distribution of one hundred thousand copies of the specil report of the department of agriculture describing the dis eases of cattle. ... Severyns, Prosser, 2nd; Woods, Walla Walla, 3rd. Time, 4:56 1-5. , 44-yard dash McBoyle, Waits burg, 1st; Stough, Spokane, 2nd; Hoobler, Lewiston, 3rd. Time, 4 2-5. Throwing hammer Conover, Wai tsburg, 1st; Chiles, Ellensburg, 2nd; Engelhorn, Spokane, 3rd. Distance, 139 feet one inch. 220-yard , hurdles Eckert,,, Lewis ton, 1st;, Kimball, Pendleton, 2nd; Engelhorn, 3rd, Time, 26 4-5. Broad i jump Hersey, Lewiston, 1st; Jay, Pendleton, 2nd; Engelhorn, 3rd. Time, 26 4-5. Broad jump Hersey," Lewiston, 1st; Jay, Pendleton,' 2nd; Cohn, Spo kane, 3rd. Distance, 20 feet 1-2 inch. Shot-put Engelhorn, Spokane, 1st; E. Means, Pendleton, 2nd; A. Means, Pendleton, 3rd. Distance, 41, feet 5 inches. Relay race, one-half mile Lewis- tori!, 1st.' Spokane, 2nd. BASEBALL SCORES. At San Francisco Portland 6, San Francisco" 0. . At Los Angeles Los Angeles 7, Oakland 2". SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1008 FROM CAR ', ..MISSION NOT DISCLOSED, BATTLE OF MANILA. . ,, : . "ght at the Rale.gh Hotel in this city, Admiral George Dewey, the .with less anxiety as to the outcome than it was ten years ago. CHAMP CLARK'S SCHEME. WASHINGTON, May l.-U is expected when the house in its con- sideration of the' sundry civil bill FILIBUSTER reaches the paragraph appropriating $500,000 for an enforcement of the Chinese exclusive law, which may be tomorrow, Champ Clark will offer an amendment to increas th appropria tion to $600,000 that this move will make way for a discussion intended to expose the alleged administration order directing federal officials to re lax their vigilance and wink at the unlawful entry of the Chines into the United States for the purpose of propitiating the Chinese government and inducing art aba-tortwnt of the boycott declared by the' Chinese merchants agSinst American1 goods. RAIDED BUTTERfNf ACTOSV, v. CHICAGO, May 1-U, & ReVemie officers raided an alleged "moonshin ers" oleomargarine foctory last night, arresting four men and securing 14, 000 pounds of colored butterine". The factory was located in the base ment and two floors of a barn at 280 Honore street. The plant is said to have been capable of turning out sev eral hundred pounds of colored oleo margarine a day. , C0VCR8THC MORNING FICLD ONTHC LOWCR COLUMBIA DENUNCIATORY SPEECH BY SENATOR JEFF. DAVIS Asks That the Committee m the Judiciary he Dis charged From Further Consideration of His Bill for the Suppression of the Trusts CONSIDERS RESOLUTION THE HEPBURN RATE LAW COMMODITY CLAUSE WAS THE SUBJECT OF ELKINS' RESOLUTION, WHICH PROVOKED SO MUCH DEBATE AND SO MANY AMENDMENTS THAT IT WENT OVER TILL MONDAY. WASHINGTON, May l.-The time of the Senate was taken up for two hours today with the speech of Jeff Davi9 of Arkansas, asking. that the committee on the judiciary be dis charged from further consideration of his bill for the suppression of the trusts. ' ' ". "He spoke for about two hours, reading much of the time from a type written statement which he said lie had prepared in advance, "that no in temperate language -might escape his lips on this occasion," a thing which he said he had never done before. During his speech he roundly de nounced the trusts, commended the president's recent message outlining measures for relief, spoke of the re moval of the motto "In God We PAPER INVESTIGATION. WASHINGTON, May l.-Testify-ing today before the house committee on the wood pulp and paper Investi gation, Medill McCormick,-the pub lisher of the Chicago Tribune, ex plained his several paper contracts of the last ten years and said that al though he had a five-year contract with one year yet to run, with the International Paper Co., the price had been raised from $1.85 to $2-20 per hundred. Further evidence was Sub mitted by John Norris, representing the American Newspaper Publishers' AsspciatioH in support 6f the associa tion's claims that there is a combina tion or an agreement irt the restraint i of trade among the sevefal groups of paper makers. , - McMINNVILLE WINS. McMINNVILLE, Ore, May l.- The field meet of the Willamette University and the McMinnville col lege was won by the latter 59 to 40 points. ,r-': . PROCESSION OF POINTS. EUGENE, Ore., May l.-In the athletic contests this afternoon . the teams of the University of Oregon, Portland High School and Eugene High School finished in the order flamed, 80, 38 artd 30 points, re-. spectively. DIVERS DISCOVER LARGE HOLE IN JAPANESE CRUISER TfjKIO, May f-iAn. official, report from the' Japanese1 cruiser Matshus ima, sunk by an explosion in the har- bor of Makang, Pescadores Islands, ( on April 30, says that" the divers have PRICE FIVE CENTS OFFERED BY ELKINS Trust" from the coins and declared that John D. Rockefeller, the Stand ard Oil Company, and J. Pierpont Morgan should be indicted for treas on, tie also paid his respects to tne press, his remarks in that connection being as follows: "Let scavengers of plutocracy howl; truth, God's living truth, where are its-jdefenders? , Miserable travesties upon noble manhood post graduates in all arts of slander or defamation I challenge the subsidized press; the people know your designs and spurn your pretense, whether under show or argument or mere subservient, hypocrites go damnable imsp of pelf (Continued on page 8.) ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP Dark Hued "Lochinvars" Tried to Kidnap a Girl HACK DRIVER 1$ SUSPICION Intent on Coercing the Girl to Marry Him It is an Old Sicilian Custom For a Bridegroom to Abduct the Charmer. CHICAGO, May I Six Sicilians, whom the police called "Black Hand" bandits, but Who are thought to be only dark-hued "Lochinvars", made a bold attempt yesterday to kidnap a 14 year Italian girl in the heart of the wholesale district. A carriage was in waiting at Quincy and Market streets into' which she was to be thrust and spir-' ited away. The driver of the car riage became suspicious and noti fied the police. All of the alleged conspirators were arrested. They are charged with attempted kidnap- (Continued on page 8.) discovered a huge rent on the port side. The after-deck is shattered and the interior wreckage prevents . the removal of manv hnrliVs ' Tu bodies of the captain and commander of the cruiser have been recovered.