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
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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. .
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Railroads, Must Restore
Old Rates
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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
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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
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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.