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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.
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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. , .
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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.