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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1908)
33rd YEAR. NO. 142 ill POUCH ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, RECOVERED Was Stolen at Kansas City June 6 THIEF LEAVES JEWELRY CHICAGO HEAT. Hottest Day In th Year-Kills Eight and Many Prostrations. C1UCACO, June 22.The hotteit day of tlic year, with mercury Hand ing at 94 degrees, brought much death and differing to Chicago today. Eight deaths are reported to the cor- oncrY office, and ieveral score of prostration! were reported to the Dolice. In addition a mad dog icare spread over the city and the chief of police ordered alt unmuzzled dog to be ihot. SEVERE HEAT IK THE EAST. Over Score of People Prostrated in New York. RACE YAR DEVELOPING Nine Negroes Killed By a Mob NEAR HOUSTON, TEXAS But Takes the $50,000 In Cur rencyBag Found In Rock Island Yards NEW YORK, June 22-The icvere heat wave that hat enveloped the Eaitern States for thre day pros trated over a acore of pcrioni in and about New York today. No relief l hifnre two davt ana the A VERY MYSTERIOUS THEFT hospitals are preparing to handle any number of heat case tomorrow, i ne maximum today wai 86 degreei. Lynching Followed the Killing of Two White Men By the Negroes Nim Waa Arrested and Found to Have $10,000 Worth o! Jewelry and a Larct Sum of Money, Waa Re leased. KANSAS CITY, June 22.-A reg istered mail pouch which contained $50,000 in money and $10,000 worth of diamonds and jewelry was stolen from a mail car at the Union Station here on the night of June 6, was found this afternoon by the switch ing crew in the yard of the Rock Island Railway in Kansas City, Kansas. Tti nmu-h still contained a num ber of valuable articles of jewelry tut the empty envelopes which had ontained $50,000 in currency showed that the thief made good on the smaller part of his haul. The theft of the pouch is highly mysterious. It was consigned from Los Angeles to New York. Receipts were shown all the way from wa Angeles to Kansas City where the nnurh vii lost siizht of. The case is made more notable by the fact that the thief slipped through the hands of the Kansas City police. On June 7 the detectives arrested a negro near the depot. He was taken irt the station and $10,000 worth of jewelry and several hundred dollars in money was found on him. The negro sent for an influential lawyer and offered him $200 if he would get t,i ff The attorney had the charge changed from "investigation" to "vagrancy" the next day, and there being no other charge the negro was ordered to leave town. Ten days later the federal authori ties issued photographs of a negro known as Charles Stephenson and various aliases. This picture was recognized as being that of the negro ,hn had been under arrest. The fed eral authorities immediately struck the negroc's trail and traced him to Denver where the search was ap parently dropped. A reward of $2000 has been offered by the government for his arrest, The postoffice officials refused to divulge the value of the jewelry discovered, but it is believed to be almost all of the original ship ment, WILL WITNESS BOAT RACE. Roosevelt and Taft to 8 Thames Together. NEW HAVEN, June 22,-Presi-dent Roosevelt and Secretary Taft will hoth witness the boat race Thursday on the Thames. This ne cessitatcs a change in Taft's plans for th latter nart of the week, Roose velt, with whom Taft and General Luke Wright, who is to succeed Taft, had an engagement for friday, tele graphed today that he was coming to the races and would not be back in ' time for the conference on Friday. He requested Taft to change his plans accordingly. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. THREE RIVERS, Que., June 22. Tinned bv a hlah wind, a fire which broke out In a stable today, destroyed the greater oart of lower town, con tainina the business section of the city. Three hundred buildings burn ed. It was necessary to send to Mon treat. Quebec. Sherbrook and Grand mere for assistance. The loss will he considerably over a million dol lars. So far no loss of life has been reported. FARMER SHOT AT HIS TABLE Five Neeroes Were Hung to the Sam Tree, While Another is Shot to Death in an Attempt to Make an Escape. CONCEPTION OF DUTIES. in Article to b Published In Collier's Weekly. NEW YORK, June 22,-In an articl to be published the current issue of Collier's Weekly, Secretary Taft sets out his conception of duties of office. In concluding he eulogizes Washington and Lincoln and says: "It remained for Roosevelt to prove how the people wil respond to the strong true leadership when the hour has come for great reforms. The policies which he inaugurated must be continued and developed They are right and they are policies of the people. For that reason hit successor may well disregard any charge of lack of 'originality if he did not make an entirely new program of his now. "The president at this time has work before him clearly defined Enforcement of . law, equally against the hiah and low, the powerful and the weak, should be his thought The danger to our country is of laxity or favoritism and this is the greatest one we have to face. He adds that the conservation of national resources and their develop ment must command his attention and that he should aim to give high tone to his administration, as Presi dent Roosevelt has done by sur rounding himself with eminent men. ELLIS AN SWERS BRYAN i i Denies All the Democrats Charges DECEIVE LABORING MAN Ellis Says Is Unworthy Remark for a Candidate for Presi dency to Make CAPT. NYE ARRESTED SAN FRANCISCO, June 22-Capt, Richard Nye, for 40 years navigator of the Pacific coast, was arrested in Alameda yesterday for grand larceny, the complainant being C. W, Fisher of the Pacific Coast Whaling and s9mihin Comoany. Fisher charges Cantain Nve with stealing and selling $800 worth of machinery from the company's schooner Gayhcad , on which he was watchman. ROBBERS SURPRISED Caught by Officers While Blow IngUp Safe ONE CAUGHT OTHER ESCAPES Men Enter Office of the Fruitvale Lumber Company at Oakland Man Named Kennedy is Held toy the Police. , OAKLAND, Cal, June 22.-The safe crackers were surprised in the office of the Fruit Vale Lumber Company at Thirty-fifth Avenue and East Fourteenth Street Fruitvale a few minutes before midnight by Con stable William Allen Deputy Con stable B. Becker immediately they had blown open the . company s safe with nitro i elycerinc. The officers dashed into the office and with drawn revolvers and one of the cracksmen gving the name . of Harry r Lenter surrendered without offering resist ance. The other escaped after being shot in the body by Constable Allen The police have a man named Ken nedy under arrest who is believed to be the other robber. Kennedy ,was found in a dyina condition and taken to the hospital. He denies being con nected with the .robbery and claims he was shot by a hold up man. SON TO QUEEN VICTORIA. MADRID, June 22,-A son was born to Queen Victoria of bpain to night, Their first son was born on May 10, 1907. . - HOUSTON, Texas, June 22.-Last night nine negroes met death at the hands of a mob in the vicinity of Hemphill in Sabine county. Today both races have secured arms and the tension is such tonight that a race clash is imminent. A lynching fol lowed the killing of two white men bv neeroes. Two weeks ago Hugh Dean and several other white men visited a neiiro church where a dance was in progress presumably in the quest for liquor, it being the custom of some negroes to sell whisky dur ing 'the progress of such affairs. Durina the evening Dean was killed and six negroes were neia tor me killing. At the preliminary examina tion there was evidence tending to show that the plot was planed at the dance to kill Dean. Saturday last Aaron Johnson, a prominent iarmer, was assassinated while at his dining table with his wife and child. The bullet being fired throuehNa window. For this crime Perry Price, a negro, was ar rested and it is stated confessed, and implicating Robert Wright, a relative of one of the neeroes held tor the Dean murder. Price declared he was offered $5 to kill Johnson. Then fol lowed the forming of the mob last night, the overpowering of the jailer and the lynching of six negroes, held for Dean's murder. Five were hang ed to the same tree while another who attempted to escape was shot to death. Later William McCoy was shot while standing in front, of the Johnson home, and this morning the bodies of two more negroes were found in the creek bottom. Wright and Price were taken to Beaumont for safe keeping. MAY NOT ATTEND HIS USUAL RECKLESSNESS PRICE FIVE CENTS INDICTMENTS ARRAIGNED. In Connection With Umatilla Indian Reservation Land Fraud. PORTLAND, June 22.-Elcven of the 14 defendants included in the Umatilla Indian reservation land fraud indictments, were arraigned before Judge Wolverton in the United States district court today and given until August 1 to plead. The defendants who were arraigned today are: J. H Raley, John Crow, William Slusher, Joseph H. Parkes, Bailey Roos, John Vert, Charles Matthias, George Adams, William Rahe, Samuel ., Olmstead and O. P. Bowman. One of the other three had been served with bench warrant and the other two failed to present aa appearance. Robert Porter was giv en an extension until next Monday when he wil be arraigned. None of the cases are likely to be set for trial until after the so-called "Heney" cases are disposed of late this sum mer. It has been commented on that these defendants are nearly all resi dents of Pendleton, and are the fist men to be indicted by District At torney John McCourt who hails from the same place, after his intro duction to the office. Elli Savi "Resolution is a Frank, Clear Statement of the Republican Parties' Position Bryan Lacks In formation. Senator Baily Still Sick And May Be Unable To Go To Denver. NEW YORK, June 22.-Friends of Senator J. W. Baily think it very doubtful if he will be able to take any active part in the Denver Convention and it may be that he will not be even fit . to attend. . This statement was mal in view of despatches trom Chicago which have represented that the sub-committee of the Democratic National Committee had been con siderinsr Senator Baily for the chair m3n nt the committee on resolution. The Senator is still in bed at the Wal dorf and it will be at least a week or ten days before he can go out. FALLS 200 FEET Joseph Randall, an Aeronaut, at Idora Park ONLY SLIGHTLY BRUISED COLUMBUS, June 22. Attorney General Ellis, who was chief author of the Republican national platform, replying to criticisms of W. J. Bryan denies that the draft as published, before the convention was changed "With the intention to displease or disappoint the president or Secretary Taft."; ';' : - Ellis says that six of the seven omissions referred to by Bryan are not issues before the people at this time, and there has not been any at tempt to make them such by the ad ministration. The seventh, concerning the injunctions, Ellis says Bryan's criticisms exhibt his usual reckless ness of the statement and his readi ness to assume that his own lack of information might be the prevailing condition. Ellis says the charge that the republican declaration was with the intent to "Deceive the laboring man", is "unworthy of a candidate for the presidency." The charee that the plank merely declares the existing law and will give no relief in cases where there has been abuse is unworthy of any lawyer who has examined the ques tion. He says the resolution is a frank, clear statement of the repuD lican party's position. SELECTION OF JURY. Follows Denial of Motion to Dismiss Indictment Against J. H. Booth. PORTLAND, June 22. Following the denial of the motion to dismiss the indictment against James H. Booth, ex-receiver of the land office at Roseburg, Oregon, the selection of the jury began this afternoon in the United States district court and when the case was adjourned until tomor row four of the jurors weer chosen. They are Henry C, Fowler, Colum bia county; Peter Pearson, Multno mah; Frank O'Del, Yamhill; h. Al len, Benton.' The iurv will be completed tomor row and it is expected the case will go to the jury the last part of the present week. Booth is accused of having accept ed $800 from F. A. Kribs for giving advance informa tion, concerning lands and when they will become available for filing. IS FOUND GUILTY Of Embezzling Securities of a Large Amount Balloon Catches Fire in View of Hundreds of People, Who Give the Aeronaut His First Warning of Danger. DELEGATES LEAVE Chicago For Denver To Attend Civil Engineers Convention. CHICAGO. June 22. Delegates from Chicago and eastern cities to the nf the American annum vvi . , Society of Civil Engineers which is to be held at Denver, left Chicago yesterday on a special train over the Burlimrton Railroad. The seven cars carried 126 of the leading engineers of the country, including President Charles Macdonald and becretary Chns. Warren Hunt. One of the large questions to be discussed bv the convention is the re clamation work being pushed by the United States Government. Amona the prominent men in the profession on .the train are C. F. Dye, chief engineer of 'tthe 'Metropolitan R. R. of New York; Prof. Ira Bolter, University of Illinois; Prof A. N. Talbot, University Illinois ana jonn F. Wallace,' former chief engineer ot the Panama' Canal. OAKLAND, Cal., June 22.-Hang-ing by his knees to the cross bar of a burning baloon, Joseph Randall, aeronaut at Idera Park, dropped 200 feet yesterday escaping with nothing worse than some severe bruises. Ran dall made the ascension in the pres ence of hundreds of persons. Atter rising about 200 feet the spectators below saw the baloon catch tire, ana the shout of horrow which met his ears was the first notification Randall received of his danger. He tried to free his parachute but was too late as before he could get it in working order the baloon envel oped in flames dropped on the roof of the Parker Theater whence Ran dall jumped to the earth, leanding there with only a few bruises. TAFT COMING WEST. ST PATTt" Tune 22. Henry W. Taft, the brother to Secretary Taft, the nominee for president, accom panied by Mrs. Taft, Miss Louise Taft and W. H. Taft, Jr., left tonight for Yellowstone Park, Portland and Seattle. BASEBALL GAMES. American League. At Cleveland Cleveland 2, Phila delphia 9. At Detroit Detroit 4, Chicago 1. National League. At New York New York 7, Chi cago I. At Pittsburg Pittsburg 0, Cincin nati 4. ' At Brooklyn Brooklyn 1, Phila delphia 0. At Boston Boston 1, St. Louis 0. Northwest League. At Seattle Seattle 5, Butte 6. TAFT BUSY. Visits Yale University, Makes Ad- " dress. NEW HAVEN, June 22.-Secre-tary Taft returned to Yale his alma mater today to attend the reunion of his class of 78. Although his inten tions were to join his classmates as "Taft of 78," he found " himself the guest of the commencement exer cises and he scarcely entered the uni versity buildings before he took up the duties as a member of the corpo ration. The Secretary addressed the law and medical schools, attended a corporation meeting and addressed the alumni. Besides these, he was a guest at a private function. W. J. BART NESS OF FRISCO Former Vice-President of the Cali fornia Safe Deposit Company Jury Out 50 Minutes Reach Verdict on First Ballot SAN FRANCISCO, June 22. Walter J. Bartnett, the former vice president of the California Safe De posit Company and Administrator of the Colton estate was found guilty of embezzling securities to the value of $31,700 this afternoon. The jury was out less than SO minutes, and reached the verdict on the first bal lot. Mercy was recommended. Judge Conley will fix the sentence on June 30. The greater part of the day was occupied in closing arguments of the prosecution and defense. Assistant District Attorney tooK spoKe ior the people in the morning and was followed by Attorney Cooper, for Rartnett. Attorney Geary made the principal argument for Bartnett this i afternoon and Cook closed. Cook portrayed Bartnett as a coward who carried on his nefarious dealings De hing J. Dalzell Brown, and his own brother-in-law, James Tread well. The main atempt of the attorneys for the defense, has fixed the blame on Brown who is already convicted. Bartnett received the verdict coolly showing but little emotion.
