The morning Astorian., May 10, 1908, Image 1

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COVERS THE MORNING FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA
JIPUtUSHCS FULL ASSOCIATED fRC89 REPORT
33rd YEAR. NO. 104
HAULED FROM
MAIN 1
Admiral Evans Flag Floats
No More
HAS GONE BACK HOME
The Admiral Was Not Permitted
to Go on Board His Ship,
the Connecticut
EXPRESSES GREAT REGRET
Tht Ceremonies Attending the Trans
fer of tht Command Were Not Plan
ned on an Elaborate Scale Only the
Regulation Requirement! Observed.
SAM FRANCISCO, May 9.Rear
Admiral F.vini' flag was today hauled
from the main truck of the Connecti
cut amid a salute of 13 gum and to
night the first commander-in-chief of
America's first battleship fleet i on
hit way home to Washington to re
main on waiting orders until the date
of his retirement for age on his 62nd
birthday which is the 18th of August
next.
On board of each of the 16 battle
ships the six torpedo boat destroyers
and the auilinrics of the Atlantic fleet
an address from the department to the
commander-in-chief was read. The
' admiral was not permitted to go on
board the Connecticut and the address
expressed the great regret of leaving
the ships and thanks for the loyal
support of the men and officers during
the long tour.
Admiral Thomas tonight is in com
mand of the Act pending the arrival
of his successor, Admiral Sperry.
Today is the last day of Rear Ad
miral Roblcy D. Evans' command of
the Atlantic fleet. He is to be suc
ceeded as commander in chief by
Rear Admiral Charles M. Thomas,
who will retain the office but five
days, stepping aside on May IS in
favor of Rear Admiral Charles G.
Sperry. , Resting from his arduous
(futies of the past two days, Admiral
Evans has planned to spend the day
quietly at the St. Francis Hotel, where
he is quartered. The stress of social
requirements has weighed somewhat
heavily upon him in his present weak
ened condition, and it was thought
that the ceremonies on the Connecti
cut today would not require his pres
ence. The physicians who have been
in constant attendance upon the ad
miral for months .stated that his
health is steadily improving, notwith
standing his exertions of the past
week. He is in better physical con
dition than when he left the springs to
return to the fleet at Santa Cruz.
The ceremonies attending the trans
fer of the command are not planned
on any elaborate scale. It is the in
tention of both Admiral Evans and
Admiral Thomas that only the regula
tion requirements of the occasion are
. to be observed. The blue and double
starred pennant of Admiral Evans will
be run down from the maintop with
a salute of 13 guns and as the nag of
Admiral Thomas is broken out, a sim
ilar salute will be given. Admiral
Thomas expects to board the flagship
as soon as the colors of his predeces
sor are lowered, and immediately as
sume direction of the affairs of the
fleet.
Tonight Admiral Evans, accom-
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his personal staff will leave the hotel
in carriages and be driven to the depot
where they will board the train for
Washington.
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IN TWENTIETH ROUND.
Sullivan Knocked Out by Ketchel at
Co!ma Arena,
SAN FRANCISCO, May 9,-Stan-ley
Ketchel, of Montana, knocked out
Jack (Twin) Sullivan, of Boston, in
the twentieth round, at Colma today.
The fight was scheduled for 25
rounds but Sullivan succumbed in the
twentieth after one of the bloodiest
ring contests that has been seen in
recent years. Although fairly knocked
out by a leries of body blows Sullivan
claimed he had been struck low,
claim which the referee refused to
allow. Ketchel has been a 10 to 7
favorite. About one thousand sailors
from the fleet witnessed the contest
HIGHER PRICES RULINO.
NEW YORK, May 9-Prlcei on se-
curities have worked to a higher level
during the week with occasional re
actions. Evidence indicates that great
banking and financial interests have
continued to exercise a benevolent con
trol of the market. Unimpaired abund
ance of money resources have fur
thered the plans of the advocates of
higher prices and the placing of new
securities on more advantageous
terms. The enormous over-subscrip
tion of the Pennsylvania bond issue
and the declining interest basis on
which New York city revenue bond
were sold were regarded as proof of
the substantial increase of capital
available for investment. The market
for existing railroad bonds improved.
Crop news was a cheering factor.
TWO CHILDREN LOST
Went Out on Astoria Pipe Line
Yesterday Morning
HAVE NOT EEEN SEEN SINCE
Although Parties Searched for the
Two Boya on Foot and Horseback
no Trace of Them Had Been Found
up to 4 a. m.
Harry Ekoos, the six-year-old son
of Benjamin Ekoos, the teamster, ac
companied by Weston' Herbert, the
five-year-old son of Henry Herbert,
the night watchman of the Astoria
Iron Works, went out yesterday
morning on the road of the Astoria
waterworks pipeline a little before 9
o'clock and have been lost.
Men on foot and on horseback have
searched diligently for them but up
to the hour of going to press no news
of them have been received by the dis
tressing parents. The search is still
being prosecuted and if today is fine
no doubt but the searching forces will
be augmented by a large number of
citizens all eager to bring relief to
the little folks and their parents and
friends.
MIDDLEMEN CUT OUT.
Wool Men Pooling Their 1908 Clip,
to Defeat Brokers.
SALT LAKE CITY, May 9,-In
furtherance of a movement to defeat
the alleged rapacity of the middlemen,
the leading wood growers of the state
will meet at the commercial club to
day and pool their 1908 clip. Through
a committee they have arranged to
borrow upon all wool stored in Bos
ton warehouses 60 per cent of its
market value. The initial loan will
run for six months and will draw a
low rate of interest. The sheep men
expect to sell directly to manufac
turers and save the large percentage
of profit which they claim has been
absorbed by brokers and buyers.
Utah's wool deposit this year will
be about 10,000,000 pounds. Sheep
men in other range states of the west
approve the plan and the storage and
direct sale system may become gen
eral. ,
ASTORIA, OREGON,
THE SUSPECT
DISCHARGED
Woman Arrested at Syra
cuse Innocent
NO MORE BODIES FOUND
The City Officials and the Sher
iff, Being of Different
Faiths, Clash
TO TRY FOR IDENTIFICATION
Statements Credited to Dr. H. P.
Long One of the Physicians Who
Performed Autopsies on the Bodiea
Found Are Repudiated by Him.
SYRACUSE, May 9.-Mrs. Cora
Belle Herron, the widow of Frederick
B. Herron, formerly president of the
Sethness Chemical Co, Chicago, was
arrested on suspicion of being Mrs.
Guinness, the La Forte alleged mur
deress, established her identity and
good character was released this after
noon. SYRACUSE N. Y., May 9.-A
woman whom the police say was ar
rested because she resembled the
descriptions of Mrs Belle Guinness
of La Porte, Ind., accused of many
murders, was locked up in the Syra
cuse police headquarters early this
morning.
The Rochester police notified the
Syracuse police that the woman was
on a New York train which passed
through here shortly after midnight,
and two detectives boarded the train.
The woman accompanied by an older
woman was in her berth. The de
tectives continued on the train to
Utica, where the two women were
taken off the train and brought back
here on a returning train. The
woman who is said to resemble Mrs
Guinness said she was Mrs L. A.
Herron of Chicago and that both had
been visiting friends of Franklin, Pa.,
and had boarded the train at Ashta
bula, O. The elder woman, she said,
was her mother.
The detectives arrived from Utica
at 3:25 a. m. with their two prisoners
and hurried in a cab to police head
quarters, where the women were at
once locked up in the matron's de
partment, and held for investigation.
: Mrs. Herron was asked for a state
ment. She said:
"I have nothing to say now. I am
innocent, and it will all come out
within twenty four hours. I am Mrs.
F. B. Herron of Chicago. My hus
band was President of "
Here she gave the name of some
company which was lost in the noise
of the crowd and when asked to re
peat it she refused.
Asked for her street address, she
replied that Chicago was quite suf
ficient. "I have been on a visit, she said,"
to Franklin, Pa., and am on my way
to see my sister in New York. The
woman with me is my mother. "I have
only to say that I am innocent, and
that it will all come out soon."
The name of her mother she re
fused to give.
The detectives learned that the
name of the mother is Mrs. Lucy
Burton. She said that the woman,
her daughter, has been married eight
years to a travelling man and that he
died about Thanksgiving time at
Vicksburg. The woman's two first
names are Cora Belle, and her mother
said that she had spent much of her
time between Franklin, her old home,
and Chicago.
A9 the detectives on the train in
SUNDAY, MAY 10, 1908
sisted that the two women get up,
the woman, Mrs Herron, exclaimed
"Oh, my God", and nearly fainted
several times on the way to Utica
Mrs. Herron was noticed making
what appeared to be nods indicating
silence at her mother on the journey.
At the waiting room in Utica, Mrs.
ft t m 1
iierron looked taint again. Mie is
said by the police to bear a very close
resemblance to Mrs Guinness. Some
of them did not think that she was
Mrs Guinness and only a few would
express themselves as positive that
she was the woman wanted.
The detectives say the woman ,told
that she left Chicago for Franklin, Pa.
two weeks ago. At one time, she
said, her mother was with her at that
time, but later she denied this. Re
peated efforts to obtain her address
in Chicago, or the address of her
friends there or in Franklin, Pa., were
ineffectual.
The Chicago directory gives but
one Mrs Herron. She is Mrs. A. L.
Herron 4743 Evans Ave., the widow
of Abraham Herron, a dry goods man.
Mrs Herron is at her home and said
that she knew of no other Mrs Her
ron in the city of similar initials or
who would answer the description of
the woman detained in New York.
Coroner Hoffman yesterday re
ceived information which led him to
believe that the earth under the house
at 620 Alma Street, Austin, formerly
occupied by Mrs Bella Guinness, "may
be literally filled with the bones of
murdered men".
The police, in conjunction with the
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FOULLY MURDERED
Charred Trunk of a Musician
Found in Furnace
FIRE DID NOT CONCEAL CRIME
Henry L. Johnson, a Clarionetist, in
the Band and Who Saved His
Money and Loaned it at a High
Rate of Interest Murdered.
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., May
9. One of the most dreadful murders
ever committed in Washington was
perpetrated at Fort Worden last night
at band headquarters.
Some time during last night Henry
L. Johnson, first clarionetist of the
Sixth Artillery Band, was murdered
and his body dismembered and thrust
into the heating furnace in the base
ment of the soldiers' barracks. Fire
was then started, evidently by the
perpetrator, in the hope of burning
the body and hiding the ghastly
crime.
This morning the charred body of
the victim was dragged from the fire
by the firemen when they went to fire
up for the day. The remains were
burned past recognition, but were
identified as those of Johnson from
fragments of his band uniform which
adhered.
Notwithstanding the limbs were se
vered and the skull battered in, no
indications of the deed or blood traces
can be found about the building.
Johnson was known to have con
siderable money, and loaned small:
sums on interest to enlsted men.
James Holt, second cook n the band,
and Private Knight, both of whom
were known to be in debt to Johnson,
quarreled wth the murdered man last
night, and disappeared from the fort.
Both were caught hiding under the
wharf this morning, and were ar
rested. Indications point to robbery as the
motive for the crime.
Johnson, the murdered man, besides
being a clarionetist, conducted a cob'
bier shop at the fort, and being sober
and industrious saved money and was
able to make loans to his comrades
at a high rate of interest. Yesterday
was payday at the post, and as a con
sequence Johnson would be expected
to have a large amount of money.
G0VE1H
NED
Porto Rican Commissioner
Complains
TREATMENT OF NATIVES
On Several Occasions the House
Had Difficulty in Maintaining
a Quorum.
PASS NUMBER OF MEASURES
The Child Labor Law of the District
of Columbia Intended aa a Substi
tute for the Senate Bill and Other
Bill! Were Passed.
WASHINGTON, May 9-Although
on several occasions it had difficulty
in maintaining a quorum -the house
transacted considerable business to
day. Quite a number of measures
were passed including the child labor
law for the District of Columbia in
tended as a substitute for the Senate
bill, permitting appeals in naturaliza
tion cases from the district to the cir
cuit court of appeals. The proceedings
were enlivened by the condemnation
of the government by Larrigna, the
Porto Rican commissioner for its
treatment of those people which he
said had led a spirit of discontent and
by a sprited passage at arms between
the floor leaders, Williams and Payne,
each accusing the other's party of dis
honesty in the election.
TO QUIT MAY 23.
Congress Expects to Adjourn on the
Above-Named Date.
WASHINGTON, May 9.-Strong
efforts will be made to have Congress
adjourn not later than two weeks from
today. Representative Tawney an
nounces the committee on appropria
tions, of which he is chairman, will
began work on the general deficiency
bill today, and he will try to report
the measure by next Tuesday. The
public buildings bill will be reported
by the committee on buildings and
grounds as soon as Chairman Bar
tholdt is sure of a right of way for it
It is conceded that this measure will
be rushed through the House. A
leader in the Senate and an import
ant member of the finance committee,
is quoted as saying yesterday that he
believed Congress would be able to
adjourn on May 23.
ATHLETES AT STANFORD.
STANFORD, Cal, May 9.-Ed-
mundston of the University of Idaho,
! won the 800 metre run from Glarner
of the Olympic Club star, time, 1 :S9.
Smithson of Portland won the 110
metre hurdle and 100-metra dash in
1S.3 and 11.1. He would have held
the world's record in the former had
he not fouled the hurdle.
SHINGLE MILLS TO CLOSE.
SEATTLE, -May 9.
June 1 and continuing
-Commencing
at least six
weeks the shingle mills of this state
will be shut down if the plans now un
der way are worked out. Circular let
ters are being sent to all shingle man-
uiaciurers aavising ine snuiaown on
account ot tne low prices ana general
unsatisfactory conditions of the mar-
k( '
IDE
PRICE FIVE CENTS
JOIN THEIR FATHERS.
Eight Children Sent to Their Fathers
After Their Mothers Were Killed by
Cossacks.
NEW YORKTTlay 9,-Brought
from their home in Odessa, Russia,
where their mothers were killed by
Cossacks during the riots in October,
1906, eight children, ranging in age
from 3 to 5 years, arrived on the
steamer Corona, from Europe. Two of
them Ena and Anna Stellerman, went
to their father in Brooklyn, and the
others, Ferji, Shelona, David and
Malet Kersunsky, ,Joys, and Ida and
Sonea Kersunsky, girls, to their
father in Philadelphia. The children,
who are bright, handsome and well
dressed, were in charge of Nahura
Schimkin, of the Jewish Immigration
Bureau.
PARK BUILDINGS BURNED.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 9,-Fairy-
land Park, a summer amusement
place, situated near Poplar and Mc
Lean Avenues, together with several
small adjoining buildings was de
stroyed by fire early to-day. The
amount of the loss has not been as
certained.
IDENTITY ESTABLISHED.
NEWPORT, Or., May 9-The body
of the sailor from the Minnie E Kel
ton which was washed ashore yester
day was identified as August Koskey.
FOREST RESERVE
Senator Smoot of Utah
for It
Speaks
CLARK OF WYOMING OPPOSING
He Said its Opponents Were Not In
different to the Preservation of the
Timber Lands But Objected to the
Methods Practiced.
WASHINGTON, May 9.-The de
bate on the main features of the agri
cultural appropriation bill were prac
tically concluded in the Senate today.
Smoot, of Utah, spoke at length advo
cating the forest reserve service.
Lodge and Newlands supported the
policy of the service, Clark of Wyom
ing, reviewed at length what he said
he regarded as the weakness of the
forestry service. He said its oppon
ents were not indifferent to the preser
vation of timberlands but objected to
the methods practiced by the bureau
of forestry under its present adminis
tration. BASEBALL SCORES.
At San Francisco Oakland 2, Los
Angeles 1.
At Portland Portland 1, San Fran
cisco 0.
At Seattle Seattle 7, Tacoma 4.
At Aberdeen Butte 3, Aberdeen 2.
- At Vancouver Morning game: Van
couver 0, Spokane 5.
At Vancouver, Afternoon game
Vancouver 0, Spokane 6.
HUMAN MONSTER
NANCY, France, May 9. Jeanne
Weber, who is said to be a victim of
infantic-mania, and who was recently
arrested in Paris on a charge of mur
dering a score of children, was found
asleep today with the body of a boy
bv her side. He had been ehnkeii art A
hi9 tongue was cut out. The police
-.ii Hifflmltv
lynching by a mob.
NAVAL ACADEMY WINS.
ANNAPOLIS, May 9. The naval
academy Crews defeated Columbia
j University 'crews in two rowing events
'today.