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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 20, 1908)
33rd YEAR. NO. HO ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1908 PRICE FIVE CENTS SHERMAN IS TAFTS MATE New York Man Named for Second Place CONVENTION IS OVER Nomination of Sherman Conies as a Surprise Not Known in the West NAMED MIDST CHFERINC Attention It Now Directed to the Selection of a Chairman of the National Committee, the General in Chief of the Republican Force. CHICAGO, June 19. Taft and Sherman. Thin it the ticket of the republican party at completed today by the' re publican national convention by the nomination of Jantei S. Sherman of New York, as vice president, amid' a final roar of tumultuous demonstra tion. Again the vast assembly was t by wave on wave of wild and fliltant clamor, as the multitude. r Jilizing tlmt at last the work done aid the record made upon which the 'publican party goes before the Country, united in one mighty out burst of enthusiastic tribute to the men who will bear forward the standard in the struggle now at hand. J he preliminaries were unci and tit 10:30 o'clock the nominating speeches for the vice-president be gan, with a limit of ten minutes to each speaker. On call of the states, Delaware yielded to New York and ex-Lieutenant Timothy 1, Woodruff mounted the platform and delivered a glowing speech, placing in nomina tion Sherman at New York's choice for the vice-presidency. Now came a surprise, as the venerable Cannon, with his Lincoln-like visage, emerged from the Illinois section and was iildcd a nunanimous consent to . . p e second tnc nomination ot sncrman. PcrVpiration streamed down his face and with his linen melted to rags by the sweltering heat. Speaker Cannon presented a characteristically crump led appearance. In a ringing speech he seconded Sherman's nomination. From the outbursts of enthusiasm which greeted ' every mention of Sherman's name, it was plain that the mind of the convention was made up and that all necessary was to record its decision.1 But for a moment there was a halt in the Sherman movement as Senator Lodge, leaving th'e presid ing officer's chair, advanced to nomi nate Governor Guild. The Massachu setts senator's voice was strained by 1iis exertions of the past few days, but he spoke eloquently and force fully for Massachuett's candidate. Michigan, through Chase E. Os bourne, added her voice for Guild and New Jersey brought forth her fa vorite son in a speech by Thomas N. McCartcr, nominating ex-Governor Murphy for second place on the ticket. A steady advanced for Sherman began again as state after state fell into line; North Carolina, in a ring ing speech from the floor by Harry Skinner, Oklahoma by Dennis T. Flynty Pennsylvania by Congressman Myrm Olmstead, Tennessee by H. Clai Evans and Virginia by C. B. mp, Then came the vote, the result S nPVIT Ml L1U11UI. A3 U1V VUlt3 V, state after state piled into the Sher man column until it reached 816. With keen appreciation of the effect of the climax, Chairman Lodge an nounced the result, reserving Sher man huge tola! for the last: "Vice-President Fairbanki gets 1 vote; Governor Sheldron, Neb., 10; Governor Curtis Guild, Mass., 75; Governor Murphy, New Jersey, 77; and James S. Sherman, of New York, 816." After ttiut the floodgates of wild enthusiasm were let loose as the Hour and gallery Joined in a pande monium of demonstration for the nominee. The nominations complet ed, all other final details were sow quickly perfected. Committees from various states were appointed' to no tify the candldatei for president and vice-president formally of their nomination, and other matters were soon disposed of. And then, just be fore noon, amid cheen and Inspiring strains of the national anthem, the national convention finally adjourned and the multitude dispersed. Sherman remained at hit hotel and knew "nothing of the result 'until a messenger notified him of his nomi nation. He held levee all the af ternoon, the delegates flocking about him to congratulate him on the sue sessful outcome of his. candidacy Many delegates and a great mass of strangers are hastening homeward to night and tomorrow there will be only the aftermath to mark the historic gathering. Attention it now directed to the se lection of a chairman of the national committee, the general-in-chicf, who will have supreme command of re publican forces in the approaching (Continued on page 4) . TWO 1I0RE DEATHS Result of the Mimic War at New York MAKING A TOTAL OF THREE Military Experiments Prove Fatal All the Men Killed Belonged to the Ninth Regiment New York National Guard. NEW YORK, June 19.-Two more deaths at the post hospital at Fort Wadsworth brought by the casulties of the mimic warfare, makes three in all. The dead are: John Walsh, Geo. Harvey and James McDonald, who are all of the Ninth Regiment of the New York National Guard. The men were killed as a result of an explosion of a six-inch gun. HAS ROUGH WEATHER. The British Ship Lord Shaftesbury Encountered Tidal Wave. VICTORIA, B. C, June 19,-The British ship Lord Shaftesbury which arrived yesterday morning from Port Talbot via Iquique reported that when 300 miles west of Cape Horn a tidal wave was encountered which swept the decks, taking all her boats and houses, starting the hull and partial ly wrecking the ship. Hundreds of tons of water broke over the ships which was thrown over on her beam ends and her cargo shifted, one man being washed overboard and drowned. This man, John Sylvester, a seaman, was the only one on deck. Had others been there they could not have escaped. On her beam the crew re shifted her coal cargo for five day's with only bread and cold water as food. Eighteen days later they work ed the vessel into Montevideo where she was repaired. While near Falk- land Island the ship got into a big field of icebergs and almost collided with one passing between two during a fog so close that her yards touched one. When nearing Victoria, J. Man ton, a seaman, fell 30ect into the hold and was brought ashore suffer ing from internal injuries and sprains to wrist and leg. . mm Railroads, Must Restore Old Rates ' ' . . . ADVANCE TOO HIGH Part of the Increase Lying East of the Missouri Were Per mitted to Stand MAKE GEOGRAPHIC DECISION The Rates Put in by the Railroads Became Effective Last November 1st $5 Per Ton Advance From Wil lamette Valley Unjust WASHINGTON, June 19.-In the Oregon and Washington lumber manufacturers association against the Union Pacific and other railroads, the Pacific Manufacturers' Association and others against the Northern Pa cific and others and the Southwestern Washington Lumber Manufacturers' Associations against the Northern Pa cific, involving a general advance in the lumber rates, in many cases, 20 to 25 per cent, from the North Pacific Coast territory to points east thereof and which became effective on No vember last, the commission makes a geographic decision in its action. . On the ground of unreasonableness it or ders for the restoration of the prev ious rates west of the line drawn from Pembina, N. D., through Grand Forks, Council Bluffs, Kansas City, Sioux City to Tort Arthur, Texas, and along the Kansas City Southern Railway and including all points east of that line, "Which will now take the same rates as any point between, and in cluding Sioux City and Kansas. Tart of the increase to the more distant markets lying east of the Missouri river were permitted to stand. The differential" rates from the Spokane rate group points of Mon tana and Oregon group points, and Hood River, F.llensburg and Leaven worth Districts, which lie east of the Cascade Mountains, embracing parts of Washington, Oregon and all of Idaho to the eastern territory, are es tablished under the decision in the case of the Potlach Lumber Company and others against the Northern Pa cific and other roads. The rates from the Spokane dis tricts are ordered lower than the Pa cific Coast. In the case of the Western Lumber Manufacturers' Association against the Southern Pacific, the commis sion decides that the advance of $5 per ton from all the mills in Willam ette Valley, not including Portland, is unjust and unreasonable; that from both the east and west banks, south of the Corvallis rate should not ex ceed $3.40 per ton, and upon the west bank north of Corvallis $3.65 per ton. Because of the water rate the Portland rate is not reduced. In case of the Pacific Coast Manufacturing Company Association against the Northern Pacific and other roads, the commission declines to establish an other through route from the Wash ington to Colorado common points and the eastern destinations. It requires however, that the Northern Pacific Railway, the Northern Pacific Ter minal Company of Oregon, the Ore gon Railroad & Navigation Company, the Oregon Short Line and the Union Pacific establish through rates for lumber from the Northern Pacific line in Washington, north of Portland, as far as Seattle, through Portland to Ogden and Salt Lake City and Utah common points, and a 40 per cent per hundred weight rate on fire and spruce lumber and a 50 cents per hun dred weight rate on cedar lumber, and shingles prescribed for through traf fic. Chairman Knapp and Commis sioner Harlan dissented from the con clusion reached by the majority in those cases, on the ground that most of the advance in the rates is reasonable. BASEBALL GAMES. American League. At Detroit The Detroit-Washington game stopped 5th inning, rain; score 3 to 2 in favor of Washington; game to be played off Sunday. At St. Louis New York 0, St. Louis 4. At Chicago Chicago 6, Boston 4, , National League. At Philadelphia Philadelphia 0, Cincinnati 5. At Boston-Boston 8, St. Louis 6. At New York Chicago 3, New York 6. ; At Brooklyn Pitts 2, Brooklyn 3. Pacific Coast League. At Los Angeles San Francisco 4, Los Angeles 2. Northwest League. , At Tacoma Tacoma 5, Seattle 7. At Spokane Vancouver 8, Spokane 3. At Seattle The umpire forfeited the game to Butte at a score of 9 to 0 in the last half of the eighth inning after three of the Aberdeen players were put out of the game when kick ing about a decision. At score stood 4 to 5 in favor of Butte. ' Police Deputy Shoots a Man and Boy NEITHER SERIOUSLY HURT A. E. Walker Who Did the Shooting Think They Were Members of a Party of Disturbers Who Interrupt ed Religious Services. PORTLAND, June 19. A. E. Walker, a member of the Tongues Fire Section who were holding a camp-meeting at the outskirts of the city, shot Stone C. Ward and a youth named Olds tonight. It it alleged that they are members of a party of dis turbers who interrupted the religious services. Neither are seriously in jured. Walker was arrested. Mayor Lane had appointed him a deputy police officer. DEBTS WILL BE PAID NEW YORK, June 19.-The cred itors committee, appointed last fall to make arrangements for settl ing the debts of E. R. Thomas, of Thomas and Robert Maclay & Co., has completed the preparation of a liquidation plan which provides for the immediate payment by the deb tors of $200,000 and annual payment of $100,000 thereafter until all the in debtedness amounting to about $3. 000,000 is wiped out. PRENSA EDITORIAL BUENOS AYRES, June 19.-The Prensa publishes a strong editorial article on the prospects of Secretary of War Wm. II. Taft being elected to the presidency of the United States It eulogizes the secretary of war and declares that the "trinity" of Roose velt, Taft and Root will exercise in the future a powerful influence in ad vancing the commercial relations and the solidarity of North and South America as well as in the awakening of the true American spirit. DOUBLE SHOOTING ACCUSED OF 11 Senator W. E. Borah of Idaho BAD FAITH IN DEALS Has Barney O'Neill Siated to Sue ceed Senator Heyburn, Say His Enemies LEADERS TO OPPOSE PLANS The Lingenfelter Incident Will Give Senator Borah a Bad Session With President Roosevelt it is Be lieved. LEWISTON, Idaho, June 19.-The controversy involved in the fight against the appointment of Attorney C. H. Lingenfelter, of Lewiston, to the office of United States Attorney for Idaho not only involves Mr. Lin genfelter, but also United States Senator W. E. Borah's power in Idaho politics, and a plan by which it is hoped to successfully launch the can didacy of Barney O'Neill, of Wallace, as a successor to Senator W. B. Hey burn. The attack upon Mr. Lingenfelter is based upon the charge that he was formerly attorney for George H. Kes ter and W. F. Kettenbach, convicted of defrauding the Government of val uable timber lands in Idaho, and now who have cases before the Circuit Court of Appeals for new trials. The Government is plaintiff in actions to revoke the patents to more than 10,- 000 acres of the valuable timber land held by these defendants, which is al leged to have' been acquired through their fraudulent practices. It is charged that Mr. Lingenfelter was re tained as attorney in these cases when the prosecutions were first commenc ed and that at th etime W. E. Borah appeared before the Federal court as their chief counsel At the next meeting of the Idaho State Legisla ture Mr. Borah was elected to the office of United States Senator and since that time he has not been actively identified with the land fraud cases. The indorsement of Mr. Borah for Senator by the state republican con vention was secured through a com promise in which the support of Senator Heyburn, Governor Gooding,) James H. Brady, G. W. Thompson and other party leaders was brought to his aid upon the understanding that formal factional differences be elimi nated. The election of Mr. Borah by the next Legislature was not opposed and the harmony plan agreed upon at the convention was not broken until the recommendation of Mr. Lingen felter shows Mr. Borah to have turn ed from the pledge to give his sup port to friends of Senator Heyburn. A feature of the appointments alleg ed to show bad faith upon Mr. Borah's part in the fact he succeeded in se curing recess appointments, and the announcement by his friends here that Barney O'Neill is slated to suc ceed Senator Heyburn is regarded as conclusive proof of duplicity. Party leaders throughout the state who can only be classed as Borah supporters have charged the Senator with bad faith on other deals, but not until now has an occasion arisen where party policy has been involved and leaders united their strength to op pose his plans. , . The view is advanced that President Roosevelt was unfamiliar with the conditions surrounding Mr. Lingen welter's candidacy when the appoint ment was made and that such evi dence will be submitted as will neces sitate his recall. In support of this theory the appointment of W. E. Stillinger two years ago to the office of Deputy United States Attorney is cited and the recall of Mr. Stillinger was made because of his former asso ciations with a lumber company. It is believed the result of the movement now on foot will give Sen ator Borah a bad session with the President, and in this event bis politi cal power in the state will be mater ially lessened. In any event the Re publican party in Idaho is threatened with disruption and the results of the fight now on are awaited with much interest. , . t ' ; : ; j DIES OF APOPLEXY. Mrs. W. F. Davis, an Old Plonear of Oregon, PORTLAND, June 19.-Mrs. W. F. Davis of Union, Oregon, the presi dent of the Woman's Relief Corps, Department of Oregon, died of apop lexy at the home of C. W. Cottell, where she had been visiting this evening. She was an old pioneer of Oregon. WAR WITH THE YAQUPS TUCSON, Ariz., June. It is re ported that in a fight between the Yaquis and the Mexican troops at a waterhole between Guaymas and Hermosillo, several Mexican soldiers were killed. The troops had been pur suing the band and ran into an am bush. The troops are still pursuing the Yaquis. HEDFORD STAYSVET Issued By Order of Judge H. K. Hanna LATE ELECTION NULLIFIED The Town's Right to Regulate Sa loons Upheld Over Local Option Law The Prohibitionists Will Make a Strong Fight MEDFORD, Or., June 19. Judge H. K. Hanna this morning sustained the former order enjoining the County Court of Jackson County from declaring the city of Medford dry un der the state law as a result of the county having cast a majority in fa vor of prohibitionist at the recent election. In his decision the court practically decided that the late elec tion was nullified, as far as this county is concerned, and that the County Court will be sustained in, au thorizing the licensing of saloons in all precincts which voted in favor of saloons two years, regardless of the last election. In effect, the Medford charter is held good as opposed to the state law. The demurrer filed in the case by Mr. Colvig, counsel for the prohibitionists, will be argued before the court tomor row, and if not sustained, an appeal will at once be taken to the Supreme Court, where the matter, being such as affects public welfare, it is hoped an immediate hearing can be had. ( It is evident that a long legal con test will ensue. The Prohibitionists being now before the court in the contest, no effort will be lost to affect their ends. It is evident today that it will be impossible to enact an ordi nance by the present, city council to close the saloons under the city char ter. "The recent licenses issued with the understanding that they would be revoked in case the county was de clared dry, will now run until the action of the supreme court in the matter. The; County Court adjourned until June 30, but there will be action when it reconvenes.