33rd YEAR. NO, 101
ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1003
PRICE FIVE CENTS
DESTINATION
REACHED
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Forty-Four War Vessels In
Frisco Bay
UNDER EYANS COMMAND
Last Night the Fleet Lay Outside
the Golden Gate Impatiently
Waiting for Time -
ENTERED BAY AT 12 O'CLOCK
In th City Proper the Many Hilli
Were Sought by ThousandsRus
sian Hill and All the Other Land,
marks Were Black With People.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 6.
Through the towering rock portals
of Colden Gate into the city of a
hundred hills, into the new San Fran
cisco risen from the ruins of two
years ago, the Atlantic battleship
fleet steamed today in view of a mul
titude unnumbered. Once inside the
entrance to the bay, the fleet was
joined by the Paciiic squadron and
the navy of the nation .all save a few
newly commissioner or reversed ships
on the Atlantic and some patrol boats
scattered in the Orient, joined in a
parade which, for impressive beauty
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RAILROAD MEN WILL WIN.
DENVER, May 6.-A move to
ward 8 settlement of the Denver &
Rio Crandc shopmen's strike was
made yesterday, when the company
made new contracts with a commit
tee representing the car repairers and
injectors. The contracts are effec
live from May 1 to December 31,
1908, and are practically the same as
the contracts abrogated by the rail
road company on March 15.
The contrcts of the carmen were
abrogated at the same time as were
the contracts for the machinists,
boilermakers and blacksmiths, who
are now on strike, and the new atti
tude of the company, as shown by
today'i action .opens the way for a
settlement of the strike of all the
forces.
WORKMEN GO OVER FALLS.
SPOKANE, Wash., May 6.-Two
men, II. W. Engleking and Crant
Powell, were awept over the great
falls of the Spokane River yesterday
and drowned. Three men were re
moving some timbers under the
Washington street bridge this after
noon, working on a raft that was
fastened to the bridge by a rope
The rope broke, and the swift waters
caught the raft. As they rushed by
the Howard-street bridge, two blocks
below, men threw ropes toward them,
and A. Simeon seized one and was
saved. The other two men jumped
for the ropes but missed, and a mo
ment later they were swept over the
fall..
NEW BREWERY MAN KILLS.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 6.-Cott-
fried Crart, 22 years of age, and a
recent arrival from Germany, last
night shot Charles Seller and Enricht
Volk, stablemen at the " Frederickl
burg Brewery, and then turned the
revolver on himself and fired a bul
let into his brain. Crart died instant
ly and Seller is not expected to
survive. Volk, who was shot in the
leg, was not seriously injured. Crart
was shipping clerk at the brewery
and the stablemen were joking with
him, when he drew his revolver and
shot before they could grapple with
him. The shooting occurred in front
of the stable at Eighteenth and Ala
bama streets.
ARREST
BROTHERS
Held in the County Jail Suspected
of Knowing Something of the
Disappearance of Mrs. Anna Aid-
rich of Dixie.
WALLA WALLA. May 6,-Gco.
Barnes, W. II. or "Bud" Barnes and
Jack Barnes, brothers, are under ar-
Test at the county jail, suspected of
knowing something of the disappear
ance of Mrs. Anna Aldrich, of Dixie.
The officers are sweating Bud Barnes
and have succeeded in getting him to
contradict his stories in several de
tails. He was last seen with the
woman last Friday. He claims she
went to Waitsburg, but no trace of
her has been found there. Mrs. Ald
Tich is a wealthy woman and has a
fine ranch. Barnes claims that he has
verbally leased the place for a term of
years. When arrested he was oc
cupying the place.
AD
ESPERATE
GUN
FGHT
HEART OP CITY
JUDAS FRIEND BETRAYED GARCIA FOR MONEY
His Friend Turned Stoolpigeon for Sheriff Emery
of Salt Lake and a Trap Was Laid for
Garcia's Capture
THE OUTLAW SAW EMERY ANO WHIPPED OUT TWO REVOLVERS
AND THE FIRST SHOT HE FIRED MISSED-IT HAS NOT BEEN
ESTABLISHED WHETHER HE FIRED ANOTHER SHOT-
BEFORE HE COULD FIRE AGAIN THE OFFICERS BE
CAN A FUSILADE GARCIA FELL WITH BOTH WRISTS
PIERCED AND ONE BULLET STRUCK UNDER THE ARM.
SEATTLE, May 6 In a desperate
gun fight in the heart of the city to
night, Jos. Garcia., alias Joe Corbova,
who shot Patrolman Ford of Salt
Lake City, December 14 last, was
himself shot and fatally wounded by
Seattle detectives. He is dying at the
hospital tonight. Garcia was led
into the trap by a lifelong friend who
betrayed the murderer for the $500
reward offered by the State of Utah.
The friend turned stoolpigeon for
Sheriff Emery of Salt Lake and the
trap was laid for Garcia's capture.
Emery came to Seattle three days
ago" and arranged with the stool-
pigeon to walk the street at dusk
this evening accompanied by Garcia
The two strolled into the midst of
six city detectives with Emery among
them. Garcia saw Emery and whip
ped out two revolvers, the first shot
he fired missed. It had not been es
tablishcd whether he fired another
shot. If he did, the shot did not hit,
and before he could fire again, a fussi
ade from the officers began. Garcia
fell with both wrists pierced, one bul
let struck him under the right arm.
Garcia did not lose consciousness un
til after the shooting and admitted he
was the man wanted.
OUTWITTED MOTHER ADMITS HIS GUILT
Oregon Girl Elopes With the Man
of Her Choice When She Learned
That Her Mother Was Going to
Separate Them.
LOS ANGELES, May 6.-Hattie
Marshall, aged 19, formerly of Em
pire Or., eloped last night with
Charles H. Torrey of Seattle aged
27. The mother wished to separate
them, thinking the girl too young.
She had arranged to take the girl to
her old home at Empire, Or., Mon
day, to place her beyond the influ
ence of Torrey. The daughter learn
ed of the scheme, told Torey, and
they decided totrun away. They got
a manage license yesterday after
noon, were married and left on the
afternoon train for San Francisco.
They left notes begging forgive
ness and saying they were the hap
piest couple in the world. The mother
has forgiven them.
CURIOUS ACCIDENT MAY '
RESULT IN DEATH
SEATTLE, May 6.-A flying cow,
hurled many feet through the air by
the impact of a Great Northern loco
motive, struck Hugh Biggerstaff, a
70-year-old resident of Merietta, last
night, and inflicted injuries that
physicians fear may prove fatal, says
a special from Bellingham, Biggers
staff's leg was broken and he suffer
ed severe internal injuries. He was
taken in a wagon to his home, and
later to a Bellingham hospital. A
second cow, which he was driving,
was taken piecemeal from beneath
the wheels of the locomotive.
Biggerstaffs cows had wandered,
and when he started to drive them
home they rushed from the brush on
the railway track just as the south
bound flyer came along. One cow
was thrown some distance from the
track and struck Biggerstaff squarely,
crushing him to the ground and pin
ning him there, badly hurt and suffer
ing intensely. The second cow was
not thrown from the track. Instead,
it fell under the pilot, bringing the
engine to a stop.
One of the Men Who Held up the
Cashier of the Chatauqua, Kansas,
Bank, Arrested in Denver and Re
turns Part of the Loot
DENVER, May 6. Arrested as
one of the pair of bandits who held
up the cashier and robbed the Citi
zens State Bank of Chautauqua, Kan.,
on April 17, of $3000, William Tenant
is 'alleged to have confessed last
night in the office of Captain of De
tectives Loomis to a part in the job
and returned all he still possessed of
the loot, $338.
The prisoner was arrested in this
city by detectives who found him at
the home of Mrs. Sarah J. Sturgeon,
in Jerome Park, where he had been
boarding for about two weeks. The
reckless manner in which he spent
money created gossip, and this reach
ed the ears of the police. His arrest
and alleged confession followed.
Tenant said today that he would re
turn to Kansas without extradition
papers. Tenant rode all the way to
Denver on his horse, fording several
streams and taking many chances in
his efforts to. evade the posse that was
on his trail, it is said.
MRS. THAW VISITS HARRY.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.. Y., May 6.
Mrs. William Thaw arrived here
Monday and passed the day with
her son, Harry K. Thaw, in ' Sheriff
Chanter's apartments in the Pough
keepsie court house. Mrs. Thaw was
accompanied to the jail by Harry
Van Cleaf, whose wife is another re
lative of the Thaws.
CONFERENCE OF GOVERNORS.
WASHINGTON, May 6.-Pro-gram
of the conference of governors
to be had at the White House next
week covering both the official pro
ceedings and the special entertain
ments which will be a conspicuous
feature of the occasion, has been
completed in outline.
All the business meetings will be
held in the East Room of the White
House. There will be a forenoon
and an afternoon session each day,
beginning at 11 o'clock and at 2:30
o'clock. The president will open the
conference on the morning of ' the
13th, immediately after which the
regular program of papers will begin,
opening with an address on "Ores
and Related Minerals." The sessions
will continue through Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday. Friday after
noon being devoted to a final general
discussion of the whole question of
the conservation of natural resources.
DYNAMITER SHOT.
BUTTE, May 6. Louis Ferris,
the Jefferson county rancher, who
was shot in the leg Monday by Po
liceman Sinsel, while evading arrest
in connection with dynamiting of the
Burlington tram recently, it is report
ed tonight, made a cdnfession.
The county attorney is in posses
sion of an alleged confession but will
say nothing further than it will shed
light on the tragedy.
NO ION OF
RACE FOR SALVAGE.
VICTORIA, B. C, May 6.-Tele-
gram from Clayoquot reports the
steamer Otter, of the Canadian Pa
cific Railway a derelict with a broken
tail shaft 26 miles off Ahousaht on
the west coast with a part of whale
oil. The weather is good. Steamer
Tees left at 8 p .m. and the British
Columbia Salvage Co. is sending the
tug William Jolliffe, its fastest sal
vage steamer mere will be a race
between the two steamers. The
Canadian Pacific Railway steamer is
being forced in an endeavor to pre
vent the salvage boat from saving the
derelict and earning the salvage
money for the company.
BEST BALL GAMES OF SEASON.
Harry Orchard Angry Because Frank
Wyman His Counsel Did Not
Avert the Reprieve Granted by the
Board of Pardons.
BOISE, May 6. Angered because
of his attorneys' efforts to save his
life, Harry Orchard has dismissed
Frank Wyman as his counsel. In a
letter addressed to Wyman, Orchard
says that he is not looking after his
interests in the manner in which he
desires, and that, therefore, he must
cease acting in his present capacity.
As a result of this action by Or
chard and also because of the ques
tion of the legality of the Board of
Pardons taking up new matters at a
special meeting, the Board today de
clined to consider the petition pre
sented by Wyman that Orchard's
death sentence be commuted. Wyman
presented a formal request .to Gover
nor Gooding asking that reprieve be
given until after the date of the next
regular meeting of the Board, which
is July 1. Governor Gooding com
plied with this request, granting a
stay of execution to July 2.
Aberdeen and Butte Play 20-Inning
Game and Was Called on
Account of Darkness.
At San Francisco Los Angeles 5,
Oakland 5 (game called in the 12th
inning; darkness).
At Portland Portland 4, San
Francisco 4 (game called in the 7th
inning; rain).
At SeattleSeattle 3, Tacoma 4.
At Vancouver Vancouver 2, Spo
kane 10.
At Aberdeen Aberdeen 3, Butte 3
(called in the 20th inning; darkness).
BRF10017N
Martin Rigidly Adheres to
His Story
NO COUNSEL ENGAGED
Public Sentiment Has Undergone
Change Toward Unfortunate
Drug Slave
KILLED BY A TRAIN.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 6.-Her-midas
Narcoux, a native of Eastern
Canada, 56 years old, was instantly
killed when his wagon was struck
by a Southern Pacific freight train
in the West Oakland yards at Cy
press and Second streets, about six
o'clock this evening.
DISMISSES COUNSEL SALARIES INCREASE
GOV. SHELDON IN FRISCO.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 6.-Gov.
George Lawton Sheldon of . Nebraska
and his staff arrived here last even
ing. The special object of Governor
Sheldon's visit to the city is to pre
sent to the battleship Nebraska a
handsome silver service as a crift
from the State after which the beauti
ful ship was named. The presenta
tion will take place on May 8. '
Flat Increase of $500 Per Year in
the Pay of Army Officers and 35
Per Cent is Added to the Pay of
Enlisted Men.
WASHINGTON, May 6.-Senator
Warren today reported to the Senate
a comptete agreement of the con
ferees on the army appropriation bill,
and it was adopted. It makes a flat
increase of $500 a year in the pay of
officers and of 35 per cent in the pay
of enlisted men in the Army. The bill
as originally agreed to carries $95,
382,246. The additional appropria
tions made by the Senate for supplies
and incidental expenses for the
Quartermaster's Department, con
struction of barracks and quarters for
the field artillery, for the organized
militia, manufacture of arms and other
items were scaled down and $3,463,
162 eliminated from the bill.
ONCE A MAN OF REPUTATION
He Was a Soldier and in the Pursuit
of His Duties Acquired First a
Disease and Through That a Habit
That is His Undoing.
PORTLAND, May 6.-Hopes held
by the police that the prolonged suf
fering from the deprivation of mor
phine and cocaine would lead Mar
tin to make a statement which would
corroberate their accusation that he
was connected with the death of
Pawnbroker Nathan Wolff, or would
effectually disprove such a connec
tion, have fallen to the ground.
Late today Martin's condition became
such that it was necessary for city
Physician 2ieiglcr to prescribe mor
phine to save the man's mind.
Martin at no time since his arrest
has shown any signs of breaking
down. He adheres rigidly to his
story that the wounds on his head
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CUTS FIVE THROATS
fi I
Italian Boy Who Worked in a Bar
ber Shop Cuts the Throats of His
v Employer and Wife and Three Men
Who Worked There.
NEW YORK, May 6.-A 16-vear-
old boy, known only as Carmello, and
employed in a barber shoo in Brook
lyn, early today cut the throats of
his employer, Antonio Peraso; Mrs.
Peraso and three barbers while they
lay asleep in Peraso's apartments in
Fulton street. The wounds of Pe
raso and his wife are believed to be
mortal, while those of the three bar
bers are serious, but probably not
fatal. The boy escaped. The police
have a theory that the boy was an
agent of a Black Hand gang.
COLUMBIA RIVER BAR REPORT
NORTH HEAD, Wash., May 6.
(7 a. m., 120th meridian time) Wind
north, 2 miles; cloudy, bar smooth.
ASSAULTED IN COURT ROOM
BY VICTIM'S BROTHER
VANCOUVER, B. C, May S.
Richard Bond, a young Portland
broker, who alleges that his sister
was ruined by George A. Walkem, a
prominent business man of Vancou
ver, assaulted Walkem yesterday
morning just before the commence
ment of the latter's trial.
Walkem was standing near the
courtroom door when Bond advanced
and smashed several stinging blows
into Walkem's face. It took two po
licemen to separate them, and close
watch was kept all day on Bond lo
see that he made no effort to shoot
Walkem.
Miss Bond, who is a orettv ar nf
24, fainted twice this morning while
giving her evidence. She told of var
ious visits she had made to Port
land, Seattle and Bellingham, where
she and Walkem registered as
Geo. Alexander and wife. She lived
for a time at the Y. W. C. A. in
Portland. The case was uncom
pleted tonight.
Walkem is a nephew of a former
Prime Minister of British Columbia.