33rd(EAR. NO. 160
ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1003
PRICE FIVE CENTS
AMERICANS
START ILL
In the Olympic Races at
London
TWO MEN GET PLACE
American Athletes 'Point Out in
justice In the Methods,
However '
KING EDWARD IS THERE
Revival of the- Olympic Championship
Garnet Opened Yeiterday and the
American Men Show up All Right
-It World-Wide Event
LONDON, July 13. The American
team of athletei it well tatUfied with
the results obtained by them on the
first day of the revival of the Olympic
championship garnet which opened at
the Stadium here today, haVing got
two men, J. II. Sullivan and Melvin
W. Sheppard, both of the Irish
American Athletic Club, into the final
heat of the 1500-meter race. They
"were unfortunate,' however. In the
first heat, when two of their best men
at the distance had to run against
each other and these same conditions
prevailed in the second heat, when
J. P. Halstcad, New York Athletic
Club, was beat by his team partner,
Melvin W Sheppard, by half a yard.
The Americans point out the injustice
caused by the , English drawing for
heats as shown by the fact that Hal
stead, although he ran much . faster
than the winners of the other heats,
is eliminated from the final, as he
finished second.
Heavy rain made the 2000 athletes
assembled, thinks that the opening of
the Stadium at Shepherds Bush would
have to be postponed.
Ai the day advanced the downpour
gave way to a drizzle, which however,
soon passed over, and as the time ap
proached for the opening the sun
came out occasionally, and with the
assistance of a light breeze brightened
up the decorations. Crowds gathered
Inside and outside of the Stadium, .and
long before the arrival of the King
and Queen the cheaper sections of
the Stadium were filled with the
spectators prepared to stay out the
afternoon, no matter what the condi
tions were.
. Shortly after 3 o'clock in the after
noon the royal box, which had been
fitted up for the accommodation of 40
persons, began to fill up, the early
arrivals including the Crown Prince
and Princess of Sweden and their
children, the Crown Prince and Prin
cess of Greece, the Dake and Duchess
of Connaught and the Puke and
Duchess of Argylc. A short time af
terwards the playing of the national
anthem by a band of the Grenadier
Guards announced the arrival of King
Edward, Queen Alexandra and Prin
cess Victoria with their suites, who
had been driven in state from Buck
ingham Palace. ' Lord Dcsborough,
chairman of the council of the British
Olympic Association, welcomed their
Majesties at the entrance to the Sta
dium and presented the members of
the Olympic Council.
As the King entered the royal box
a bugler gave a signal the gates
leading to the competitors' quarters
flew open and the athletes marched
ottt under the banners of their re
spective nations, The procession was
formed in alphabetical order, Austria
leading, with the exception that the
English-speaking races came last.
This latter section was ' led by an
American team.
MANY PARROTS DIE
Long Trip From South America To
Lot Angeles Without Food
LOS ANGEUsTjuly 13.Hur.d
reds of dead and dying parrots and
parrokeets wire discovered at the
Arcade depot yesterday by officials of
the S. P. C. A., whoie' attention wa
called to the condition of the large
shipment to the California Parrot
Company at Fresno. According to
tlic statements of officer! who investi
gated the cae the cage contained
nearly 1,000 bird i and it was claimed
they had been without food and water
niitcc thetr departure from Guaymas.
For lome realon, not explained the
cage had been marked with the ad
monition not to feed, or water the
bird, but the warning wa disregard
ed by the S. P. C. A. official who
saved the lives of many of them.
Notice will be lervcd on the expreii
company ordering that ihipmenti
'under similar condition will be here
after refused.
RESCUING MINERS.
Men Arc Busy on Scene of the
Wyoming Disaster.
HANNA, Wyo., July 13,-The
Eastern slope of the Pacific Mine No.
l,in two disasters which occurred on
March 30 hai been opened for a dis
tance of 100 feet and the work of
cleaning out the debris it progressing,
After seveal dayi, the workmen will
proceed further into the mine. The
bodv of Electrician Armstrong, who
after the first explosion went into the
mine to repair lights for the rescuers
and who was burned by the second
explosion was recovered today.
There are still ,57, bodies in the mine.
TO GET RICH QUICK
Another Land Scheme Arrest Is
-"'' 'Made ::
TO LOOT PUBLIC DOMAIN
Henry E. 0. Cooke ia Arrested at
Baker City on Charge of Fraudu
lent Dealings in Oregon Lands
Hla Plana Were Daring.
PORTLAND, July 13. With the
arrest in Baker City, Ore., of Henry
E. G. Cooke, head of the Oregon
Ranching and Timber Company and
the. Southwest Texas Development
'Company, occupying offices in the
Tribune building, New York city, on
an indictment returned bv the Federal
' grand jury of Gotham, charging him
'and A. G. Marshall with conspiracy,
what appears to be a colossal scheme
, to loot the public . domain has come
to liizht.
! ' Cooke was taken into custody by
the Baker City authorities upon tele
graphic advices, from District Attor
ney John McCourc, who was advised
by wire from New York to cause the
arrest of the alleged land manipula
tor on a true bill found against him.
!A deputy United States marshal will
( leave here at once for Eastern, Ore
gon to bring the prisoner to Portland
'in the event he is unable to furnish
bail
! In all the palmy days of the opera
tions of the Oregon land frauders"
nothing equalling in point of daring
or originality the alleged methods of
Cooke was ever devised, and the
effrontery which is said to character
ize the mode of action of the Oregon
Rant:h'ng 'and Timber Company indi
cated that the concern, banking on
legal advise, s entirely fearless of the
consequences. :
"Twenty to one for your money" is
tlic bait which is said to have been
.filtered 1o those desirous "of joining
the alleged "get-rich-quick" move
ment, and from the glowing prospec
tus compiled by the concern the in
vestment of $100 will produce $2000
in three months. '
AVENQESHER
in orm p
Another Tragcdr ollows
Shooting a Year Ago
SCENE OF OLD CRIME
Dr. Simpson Is Shot by the
Woman He Made a Widow,
After Being Warned
OUTCOME DOMESTIC TROUBLE
His Wife Who Took Witness Stand
Against Him at Former Trial
Refuses to See HimIs in a Serious
Condition.
NORTHPORT, N. Y., July 13
Standing within a few feet of where
little more than two years ago he shot
and killed his father-in-law, Dr. Jas,
Waddcll Simpon, a dentist of New
York was shot and perhaps mortally
wounded today by his mother-in-law,
Mrs. Sartley Horner, whom he made
a widow.
Dr. Simpson's wife from whom he
had been estranged for many months
was near when the shot 'was fired,
but she was not a witness to the
shooting. Upon learning that it was
her husband who had been wounded
she refused to go near him and Dr.
Simpson had to crawl to the house
200 feet away to have his wounds at
tended to,
Mrs. Horner was later arrested and
held in $S000 bail, while Dr. Simpson,
with the assistance of two friends
made his wav to the Roosevelt hos
pital in New York. The bullet lodged
in the liver and an immediate opera
tion was performed to take the bul
let out. The doctors said tonight that
Simpson has only a small chance of
recovery. Statements from Simpson
and Mrs. Horner as to the circum
stances attending the shooting dis
agree. The dentist says he had re
ceived word from his wife that she
intended to sue him for divorce and
that he went to the Horner home to
talk with her about it. He says he
rang the door bell and upon receiving
no response peered through the door
pane. He saw Mrs. Horner he says,
and called upon her to open the door.
Then Dr. Simpson says, she grabbed
up a revolver and shot him. The
bullet entered his body above the
abdomen and he fell back against the
doorsill. A second shot was 'fired at
him, he declares, but the bullet went
wild. Mrs. Horner does hot deny
that she did the1 shooting but claims
justification. Through her lawyer,
Rowland Miles, she' said, Simpson
imd several times called, at the house
and he, and his visits were ..unwel-
come, wnen he came
y. she ordered him
today, she
away,' ' and
when he refused to go. she: took up a
revolver and shot at him. , , , . ;
Constable Hanson, who arrested
Simpson in 190S when 1 the dentist
ihot ;Mrs. Ilorner's husband; arrested
MrSi.Honier this evening. This sec
ond tragedy is only another , chapyir
of the unhappy domestic events of the
last few . years., , The , shooting of
Homer; by Simpson, aroused the
countryside, arid when the . dentist
was put on trial for life, his wife
took the stand against him as did his
mother-in-law.
Pr. Simpson was going through
manual-of-arms with a shotgun when
he was shot by Mrs. Horner.
WATCHES' WOMAN DROWN
j Dastardly Chicago Crowd Stands Idly
By And See Her Sink To Death.
O JlIICAGO, July 13-With 200 men
ind boys standing within a few feet
of her and in sight of 1U00 other
an unidentified women, felt or rolled
purposely from the North Pier at the
mouth of the Chicago river yesterday
and was drowned. Although she
screamed repeatedly for assistance not
a hand in the crowd that watched her
struggles in the water was lifted to
save her. Instead one of the gasjwrs
stole, the woman's purse and hat
which she had placed on the pier be
side her and fled.
A half hour later the bodv wai
taken from the water by Capt. Carlad
and his men from the life saving
station. The body was neatly dres
sed. The woman apparently was 35
years old, five feet four inches tall
with dark brown hair and hazel eyes
and weighed 105 pounds.
TO JURY WEDNESDAY.
Steve Adams Produces Eight Strong
. Witnesses.
- GRAND JUNCTION,' Colo., July
13.The defense rested today in the
case of Steve Adams, charged with
the murder of Arthur Collins, a mine
superintendent after producing eight
witnesses who testified that Adams
was playing cards at Mrs. Mennan'i
boarding house at Ophir on the
night Collins was shot in Telluride,
and was still there when 'f a .man
brought the news of the murder. The
prosecution announced that it would
close rebuttal evidence by noon to
morrow and the case will probably go
to the jury Wednesday. .
FIRE AT SEATTLt
More Than a Score of Firemen
Overcome by Smoke
DAMAGE ALMOST $150,000
Flames Start in .Basement of the
Hinkley Building Over Half the
Damaae Carried no Insurance
Jeweler Heaviest Loser.
SEATTLE, fuiv 13.-A fire that
started m the basement of the Hink
ley building at Second and Columbia
streets tins evening, burned for three
hours, and inflicted damage between
$100,000 and $150,000 lass than half
which is covered by insurance... More
than a score of firemen, were over
come by , smoke and paint fumes an
for a time it was heard that, some of
them lost their lives. All can be ac
counted for however and none are
expected to die. All but about $50,
000 damage to the building is repre
sented in merchant stocks, destroyed
and damaged. H. Silver, a jeweler,
whose half stock is damaged, to the
amount of $125,000, is the , heaviest
loser.,. He carried no insurance. , ,
SOCIALISTS ARRESTED
LOS ANGELES, July 13.-The
attitude of Socialists of this city, who
are, lately insisting upon the right to j
address . street meetings in spite of
numerous arrests by the police, prom
ises to end in a somewhat bitter camp
aign. Several sand . lot; orators nave
served chain-gang , sentences and at
present four women and a man are
confined in the, County Jail awaiting
trials set for October. , , '
Walter; V. Holloway, .,.a national
committeeman of the Socialist party,
whose wife is one of the pristoners,
stated today that his associates, were
planning , for a,, large demonstration,
when the police will be compelled to
make arrests, Holloway stated that
sympathizers, from other cities were
arriving here and that finnaciat aid
was being sent from many parts of
the country.
THOUSANDS
KEPT IDLE
aper Makers Trouble Ef
fecting Publishers
APPEAL TO PRESIDENT
Rider, of American Newspaper
Association, Says. Courts
Promise Fails
TO END LAWLESS CONDITION
The Situation Requires Drastic Treat
ment and an Urgent Appeal is
Made to Bring About a Satisfactory
Settlement
NEW YORK, July 13.-Not only
are the paper makers keeping their
own employes in idleness, but they
are enforcing idleness upon thousands
of workers in the printing and pub
hshing plants throughout the coun
try." This is the conclusion of Her
man Ridder. the president of the
American Newspaper Publishers' As
sociation, expressed in a letter to the
president about the paper combma
tions. The letter states that the
promise that the courts would pro-
ide adequate and prompt remedy aft
er an appeal to congress had been made
failed, and has not been fulfilled; and
that after 24 paper makers, acting to
gether in the Fibre and Manila As
sociation had been Subjected to
grand jury investigation, the paper
makers admitted that they placed
their records beyond their reach but
subsequently all but two of the par
ticipants pleaded guilty, and , that
immunity was practically , granted
every individual who participated in
the pool. The treasurer and the
originator of the pool, John H, Parks
is now, says the letter, a fugitive in
Europe.
"Such a finish to ;the proceedure,"
the letter further states, "Is a miscar
riage of justice," i rr,;j,
"The situation," the letter states",
"requires drastic treatment and afl
appeal is made that steps be taken to
bring the law-breakers to their senses
and end these lawless conditions,
which interferes with the return tc
prosperity." ,
POSITION OF FLEET
HONOLULU, July 13.-A wireless
message from Lieutenant Fullinwaid
er, Associated Press correspondent on
board the battleship Connecticut, re
ceived late last night says the position
of the Atlantic fleet at 8 p. m. was in
Latitude 28.19; Longitude 146.15. The
fleet will slow down to nine knots an
hour tomorrow noon in order to pass
the leper settlement on Molokai in
daylight Thursday morning. The
Nebraska is 140 miles behind the fleet
arc:
will overtake the other vessels
Tuesday
smooth.",
morning.
The sea
is
1 MARINE IS DROWNED
SAN FRANCISCO,' July 13 -A re
port has been made to the harbor
police by Lieutenant Owen, comman
der of the Marine barracks at Goat
Island, that a. marine whose identity
has, not been established was thrown
off' the end of the Clay Street wharf
during; a fight" -with , a sailor of ,the
West Virginia on Saturday night last
and drowned." The information upon
which Lieutenant Owen bases his re
port says the sailor and the unknown
marine ' wiere both precipitated, into
the watei of the bay and that
sailor wal rescued.
ATTACKED BY ROUGHS.
Returning Pennsylvania Democrat
Delegation Meets With Sticks.
CHICAGO, July 13.-A special
despatch to the Tribune from St.
Louis, Mo., says:
The train bearing the Pennsylvania
delegation, from Denver was attacked
by roughs, as it was entering St
On the side of the special car was
the streamer of the Pennsylvania dele
gation, ':- v
The train was running at a high
rate of speed when suddenly there
was a fusilade of stones, bricks and
bullets. Wm: Schultze, O; W. Max
well and J. H. Curran of Washington,
Pa., seated together at one side of the
car, were cut by the flying glass, but
escaped the stones and bullets.
Colonel James M. Cuffey was seat
ed in the forward end of the car and
escaped injury.
Since leaving Denver, Colonel Guf-
fey has been ill as the result of the
heat, and the excitement of the con
vention.' A physician was caned to
the train and attended Mr. Cuffey.
REPUBLICAN HEADQUARTERS.
Hitchcock Locates and Says Taft Will
Not Make Speeches Until Sept
NEW, YORK, July 13. Chairman
Hitchcock of the Republican National
Committee today selected quarters in
the Metropolitan Life Insurance
building here. : The active presidential
campaign will begin August 1st when
the committee . opens headquarters.
Hitchcock says he, has intention to
remain in New York and direct the
fight. He states Taft will not make
any speeches until after September 1.
OilEGOILQiBURSI
12 Feet of Water Sweeps Down
Dry Canyon
HEPPNER PARTLY FLOODED
Eastern Oregon Town Has Stores
Submerged No Lives Lost and
Damage is Only Slight Power
House Out of Commission
PENDLETON, Or.. July 13.-A
cloudburst in the vicinity of Heppner
today flooded Dry Canon and sent
water1 pouring down it 12 feet. deep.
The wafer swept down the steep in
stead of following the river channel
through Heppner, flooding the lower
stories of houses in the upper end of
town to a depth of, two feet.. The
power house was put out of business
and the damage can not be repaired
for 24 hours. No lives are lost and
no serious, damage has been done.
POTTER IMPROVING.
COOPERSTOWN,.July 13-Bish-
j op Potter's condition showed a mark
ed improvement today and he was
able to sit up for a time.
TO SUPPORT BRYAN. j
LINCOLN, July 13. President
Gompers of the American Federation
of Labor, and practicaly 3,000,000 vot
ers of organized labor, will support
Bryan in the camapign. While'
Gompers promised his support today,
he specifically denied any present in
tention of taking to the stump. ,
HITS WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE.
COLUMBUS, July 13.Before the
State Convention today, Temporary
Chairman H. L.. Peake of Sandusky
assailed woman suffrage, which, has
come to be an established tenet of
the party. He declared 4 that women
drink more, and men less, than a de
cade ago, and that the weakest laws
regulating the liquor traffic, are in
the j the woman suffrage, states of Colo
rado, Idaho, Utah and- Wyoming.