"OVERSTHE MORNING FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA
PUBLISHES PULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT
33rd YEAR. NO. 125
; ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1908
PRICE FIVE CENTS
BANK TELLER
SHOOTS SELF
Discrepancy In Ills Ac
counts Discovered
SHORTAGE IS $10,000
Charles T. Muir, Paying Teller
- of Corn Exchanae Bank.
New York City
SURETY BOND COVERS LOSS
Asks to be Excused Goes to Bate
ment Writei Confession Then He
Shoots Himself -Was One of the
Bank's Trusted Employes.
NEW YORK, June 3-On being
questioned by the bank officers today
about the apparent discrepancy in hi
accounts, Charles T. Muir, the paying
teller of the 42ml Street branch of the
Corn Exchange Bank, asked to be
excused until he could get a deposit
ticket to explain the matter. Muir went
into the basement, and after writing
a confession that his accounts were
short he shot himself in the head. He
was one of the bank's trusted em
ployes. The shortage is about $10.
(XH). Muir in his confession stated
that speculations had been going
wrong for the past five years while
lie was receiving teller. Three days
ago he was made paying teller and he
was no longer able to conceal the
shortage. The shortage is fully cov
ered by surety bonds.
NEW PUBLIC PRINTER.
Will Arrive In Washington Tuesday
To Enter On New Duties
WASHINGTON, June 3.-John S.
Leech, the new public printer, will
arrive in Washington next Tuesday
to enter upon the duties of his new
position. Mr. Leech has just re
turned to this country from the Phil
ippines and is spending a few days at
his home in Illinois previous to com
ing, to Washington, The employes
of the government printing office yes
terday returned to the summer sched
ule. The omnibus style of reporting
pension bills adopted at the session
just ended reduced the number of
senate and house reports and also
the number of reported bills. New
Bills for both houses and with vari
ous prints necessary for legislative
purposes will make approximately
10,000. The house sent to the print
ery 975 documents, and 1.792 reports
against 530 of the former and 398 of
the latter by the senate.
FISH BILLS CARRY.
But is Not Known Which Re
ceived Heavier Vote.
PORTLAND, June 3.-Up
to a late hour tonight no defin
ite figures had been compiled
on fish bills. Both bills have
carried but it is not known
which received the heavier
vote. An up-river canneryman
reported tonight that the up
river bill had the most votes
but don't know on what he
based his statement. The rea
son for the slowness in re
turns Is that about three
fourths of the counties of the
state are not interested and in
porting the returns they have
wholly neglected to mention
either bill.
ESTATE OF J. HENRY SMITH
Who Dies On Tour Around The
World.
NEW YORK, June 3,-Transfer
Tax Appraiser Wtn. P. Gregg of Port
Jcrvis, has made his report to Stir
rogatc John B. Swcezcy on tthe est
ate of James Henry Smith, who at the
time of his death while in Japan on
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tour arouna inc woriu, rcsiucu i;
Tuxedo Park, Orange Caunty. Thei
personal property is valued at $21,240
447.96, of which $12,016,035.60 is in
bonds. The real estate is $2,416,057
.50, Debts and expenses of admin
istration are $1,690,577.98, leaving
$21,965,957.48 for distribution to the
legatees.
Appraiser Gregg finds that there is
$4,088,918 on which the one per cent,
transfer tax is collected, and $17,652,
127,48 for the five per cent tax. The
state will receive $923,495.55. His
wife, Annie Armstrong Smith, will
receive $3,000,000.
ADOPTS YAQUI INDIAN.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 3.
Bringing with him a little year old
Yaqui Indian whose father and pos
sibly whose mother he killed in a
recent uprising in the Sonoras, Wm. J.
Partridge, a wealthy miner, has ar
rived in this city.
He has just returned from the
Yaqui country, whither he was sum
moned by the government to explain
the (looting of the Indian. His ex
planation of self-defense was fully ac
cepted. He calls the little Indian he
has with him Louis. He says he will
try to bring the boy up and educate
him.
TO USE TELEPHONES
To Replace Telegraphic System
For Dispatching Trains
ROADS ADOPTING NEW SYSTEM
Railroad Men Say That in Time the
Telephone Will Suspense the Tele
graph Despatching of Trains as
They Are More Satisfactory.
NEW YORK, June 3.-The Lack
awanna R. R. is preparing to replace
its telegraphic system of train dis
patching with the telephone. Poles
have been set and wires arc being
strung on the section between Scran
ton and Binghamton and work will
be begun on other parts of the road
as rapidly as supplies can be got. The
officials expect that the new system
will be in use on the Scranton-Bing-hamton
Division and over the whole
road in a year.
For some time the Lackawanna has
used the telephone largely in giving
orders and between its general offices
and the offices of the various divisions.
The telephone was found so much
more satisfactory than the telegraph
that it was decided to use it for des
patching also. Several western roads
have adopted the telephone system.
Railroad men say that in time the
telephone will supersede the telegraph
in the despatching of trains.
GOES TO SCAFFOLD.
Goes Protesting His Innocence of the
Killing of Wenssler.
ST.LOUIS Mo., June 3.-"I shall
go to the scaffold, if God gives me
strength, protesting my innocence, I
am ready to meet my Maker and it
will not be long until others in the
plot against mc will follow. The fact
that the man who was first arrested
has committed suicide is evidence that
retribution has started."
In these prophetic words Wm. Jef
fries, whom Gov. Folk last night re
fused a third respite, announces him
self as ready to forfeit his life on the
gallows early tomorrow morning at
St. Charles, where he is to be hanged
for the murder of Wm. Weussler a
dairyman, April 5, 1905.
SPLIT ON MOR
MON QUESTION
Two Conventions at Same
Hall
FIGHT ABOUT CHAIRMAN
Du Boisltes Nominated Glen Mc
Kinley and Opposition Put
Up K. I. Perky
MAKE THREATS OF PROFANITY
At One Time Physical Encounters
Seemed Iminent and Once it
Looked as if There Might be Blood
shedInstructions For Bryan,
SALT LAKE, June 3. A special
received here tonight from Twin
Falls says that the Democratic party
of Idaho hopelessly split on the
Mormon question, Amid the wildest
scenes ever witnessed at the conven
tion in this state, two conventions
were held simultaneously at the same
hall this afternoon, claimed to be a
regular and bitter contest before, the
National Convention at Denver is
certain. At one time this afternoon
the physical encounters seemed immi
nent and once it looked as if there
might be bloodshed. The anti-Mor
mon faction led by former Senator De
Bois had the majority of delegates.
Other faction elected 1? delegates, one
from each judicial district and five
from the state.
A fight arose over the election of
temporary chairman. Du Boisities
nominated Glen McKinley and the
opposition put up K. I. Perky. The
vote gave McKinley 148 votes and
Perky 132. It was claimed that the
state committee had admitted the con
tested delegates were favorable to Du
Bois and barred the contestees that
leaned toward the opposition. When
the threats of profanity and other
riotous demonstrations subsided,
Perky called upon the opponents of
Du Boise to gather around him. He
then led them to another part of the
hall ahd organized his convention. He
elected delegates' and instructed them
to vote for Bryan as long as his name
was before the convention. The reso
lution deploring injection of the
Mormon question into politics was
adopted.
ELABORATE PREPARATIONS.
Denver Credit Men Will Entertain
The National Association.
DENVER, Colo! June 3.-The
Denver Credit Men's Association is
making elaborate preparations for en
tertaining the members of the Nation
al Association of Credit Men who will
hold their thirteenth annual conven-
! tion in Denver June 23 to 26 inclusive.
This association comprises the men
who pass on the credit that is extend
ed each year to the extent of over
one billion dollars through out the
entire United States. Its members
comprise manufacturers, jobbers, and
bankers.
A "snowball special" over the Mof
fatt Road is one of the unique features
planned for the visitors. .
APPROPRIATION BILL LEADS.
PORTLAND, June 3.-A partiaf
returns from a number of counties
together with a conservative estimate
give the University of Oregon appro
priation bill a lead of more than 5000
votes which may be increased slightly
when all the returns are in.
BASEBALL SCORES.
Pacific Coast League.
At San Francisco San Francisco
6, Oakland 7.
At Portland Portland 5, Los An
geles 1.
Northwest League.
At Spokane Spokane 8, Seattle 2.
At Tacoma Butte game postponed;
Tacoma team delayed by warhouts;
series abandoned.
At Seattle Aberdeen 0, Vancouver
4.
ACCEPTS RESIGNATION.
WASHINGTON, June 3.-The
President today accepted the resig
nation of Jackson Smith, a member
of the Canal Commission.
A LONG WALK.
Will Leave New York For San Fran
cisco On Foot
NEW YORK. June 3.-JuIes Lep
eux, a landscape, gardener, who dur
ing the last 13 months walked from
San Francisco to New York by way
of New Orleans and St. Louis will
leave this morning upon a pedestrain
tour which will end in Market Street,
San Francisco.
Mr. Lepeux is a member of the
Horticultural Society ' of California,
and during his leisurely journey
across the continent has tarried in
several cities to learn things In land
scape gardening from those who
could teach him and to teach those
who could learn from him.
KILLS HIS SISTER
Can Give No Reason for His
Crime
SAYS SISTER WAS WRONGED
Arkansas Farmer Shoots His Sister
and Her Husband And in an At
tempt to Escape Gun Accidentally
Discharged and he is Injured.
STUTTGART, Ark., June 3
Other than to say that his sister had
been wronged, Ben Oliver, a young
farmer who was lodged in the county
jail at Dewitt last night charged with
the killing of his sister and her hus
band, a man named Stanley, can give
no reason for his crime.
Mrs. Stanley was shot and killed
while at work in the garden of her
home near here. After shooting the
woman Oliver entered the house and
fired on Stanley who was in bed
sick, inflicting wounds resulting in his
almost instant death. Hurrying to
escape, he was in the act of climbing
a fence when his weapon, a shot gun,
was accidently discharged, the charge
of shot tearing away almost the entire
side of his face. He was picked up
by a train crew and brought here for
medical attention, later being turned
over to the hseriff and lodged in jail
at Dewitt.
HOUNDED BY AVENGER MAN.
Paid Penalty For His Alleged Un
faithfulness With Life.
ST. Louis, Mo., June 3. Hounded
from Russia by thte "Avenger man".
a Russian secret society composed of
peasants, because he had broken one
of the direful oaths exacted by the
order, and forced to lead a roving life
to escape death at the hands, of those
detailed to right the wrong he had
done the society, Jos Deadola, 35
years of age, yesterday, paid the pen
alty for his alleged unfaithfulness
with his life.
Deadola's body was found floating
in the river Des Peres. An ugly
gash was on the left side of his face
Three other cuts, which might have
been made after he was dead, com
bined to form a livid letter "A".
FUNERAL OF
EMIL ZOLA
Tbe Enjiiient Frencb Nove
list FULL NATIONAL HONORS
Ceremony to Be Elaborate and
Almost Identical to the Burial
of Victor Hugo
LEADER IN DREYFUS BEHALF
Anti-Dreyfus Press Heaps Insults on
Memory of Zola and "Traducer of
France" in His Novels Allege That
Translations of Works is Disgrace.
PARIS, June 3. The , preparations
for the interment tomorrow of the re
mains of Emit Zola, the eminent nov
elist, with full national honors in
Pantheon are now complete. The
ceremony will be elaborate and almost
identical with that one attending the
burial of Victor Hugo, the last great
Frenchman to be so honored. Reali
zation that Zola is to be honored is
not so much because of his writing
but because he was a leader in behalf
of Dreyfus which routed the general
staff of the army and has revived
whatever is left of the old animosities
that ten years ago divided France in
to two hostile camps.
The anti-Dreyfus press today heap
ed insults on the memory of Zola
and the "Traducer of France" in his
novels and alleged that the transla
tions of his works are disgrace to the
country. La Libre Patrole publishes
a scathing denunciation of the gov
ernment and parliament, reviling them
in the foulest of terms for the glorifi
cation of Zola, alleging that it will
convert Pantheon into a sewer.
APPOINTED ASSISTANT.
WASHINGTON, June 3.-John C.
Scholfield was appointed assistant
and chief clerk of the war depart
ment to take effect on July. Scholfield
has been for some time a chief clerk
of the war department. The new' title
adding word "Assistant" having been
created by Congress and is interpre
ted as adding additional assistant to
the secretary of war. It relieves the
situation which has been found very
embarrassing whenever in absence
of both secretary and assistant sec
retary for any officer of the depart
ment to act for the secretary.
DECLARED SANE.
Slayer of Judge Emory Who Was
Acquitted Last Year.
TACOMA, June 3 Chester Thomp
son, the slayer of Judge George Mead
Emory last year, was acquitted on the
ground of insanity and has been p'ven
a hearing before the superior court of
this country on his present mental
condition was today declared by the
jury to be sane and safe to be at
large. The state filed a notice of ap
peal and the pending hearing of the
supreme court, it is probable Thomp
son will remain in jail. .
ARRIES AT NOME.
SEA'i a LE, June 3. A special to
the Post Intelligencer from Nome
states that the steamer Corwin which
reached Nome this afternoon for
ninth consecutive time has been the
first vessel to reach Nome. Captain
West states that the ice encountered
was the worst in years.
BRYAN MADE 42 SPEECHES.
Ends His Tour Through Northern
and Western Nebraska.
OH AH A, June 3.The week's
speech-making tour of W. J. Bryan
through the northern and western
part of Nebraska ended today. He
has made 42 speeches and nearly as,
many informal responses since he left '
home last Thursday. In many of
these instances his addresses have
had home color, but in no intance has
he failed to touch on national politics.
PRESIDENT REFUSES.
To Intercede For An Old
Army Veteran.
Union
NEW YORK, June 3.-President
Rosevelt has just refused to intercede
for an old Union army veteran who
is now serving time for the part he
took recently in smuggling articles
from France into this country. The
appeal to the president was made in
behalf of Austin Montaine who until
recently was connected with a firm of
importers. Montaine is now in the
prison hospital on Blackwells Island
in feeble health, Montayne was sen
tenced to four months imprisonment
and several other indictments were
found against him in addition to tthe
one on which he was sentenced. The
men by whom he was employed were
released upon payment of a fine of
$250.
The appeal to President Roosevelt
was based confidently upon the Civil
War record of Montayne. In an
epistle of several thousand words his
lawyers tried to reach the sympathe
tic side of the president.
President Roosevelt in his reply
said that he did not see fit to interfere.
Decorations to Be Most Elabo
rate Ever Used
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A STAR FOR EACH STATE
Among the Decorations For the Detn
ocartic Convention Will be Six U.
S. Flags of 30 by 50 Feet, and 48
Stars Representing Each State.
" DENVER, Colo., June 3 Decora
tion of the new Denver Auditorium
fo,r the Democratic Convention will
be the most elaborate used at any
previous Democratic Convention in
the country. Among the decorations
will be six U. S. flags, 30 by 50 feet.
Four of these will be behind the
speaker's platform and between these
four flags will be suspended an im
mense curtain of bunting containing
8,000 yards of sewed cloth. In the
center of the curtain will be a shield
17 feet long by 15 feet wide. Attach
ed to this shield will be eight 15 foot
flags ana on each side of this central
shield will be four similar shields
smaller in size, being 12 feet long
displaying eight flags.
Beside the platform will be an enor
mous bank of green roping and arti
ficial palms. On each side of the
platform will be artificial palms stand
ing five feet high. Above the plat
form will be suspended four life sized
eagles with wings suspended four feet.
The balconies will be draped with red,
white and blue bunting with a series
of shields of two colors, alternating
along the rails. The same scheme of
decoration will be carried out with
regard to the galleries. The side
walls of the Auditorium from the ceil
ing down will be covered by one large
drape of bunting.
Forty eight stars, ten feet in dia
meter, will cover the ceiling and in
the center of each star will be placed
a representation of each state. These
stars wil cover the entire ceiling im
mediately above the place occupied
by corresponding delegations.
DENVER CONVENTION
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