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Or Hfitorlcil Society 30VCR9THC MORNING flCtO ON THE LOMCR COLUMBIA PUSLISHCS FULL At VOCIATKO PRESS RIPORT 33rd YEAR. NO. 169 ASTORIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1S08 . PRICE FIVE CENTS YANKEES HOT PROTEST If.. Aren't Getting Fair Show ' In Olympic Games WORST DECISION YET Carpenter of Cornwall Dlsquali tied After Winning in 400 Meter Race AMERICANS ARE VERY ANGRY Cornell Man Won Out in Brilliant Manner But Judges Said bt "Pock eted" the English Runner, But Thii is Vigorously Denied, YESTERDAY'S FINALS. 200 meter flat race Kerr, Canada; Cloughen, Irish-American A. C, sec ond; H, J. Cartmell, University of Pennsylvania, third. Time, 22 sec- ends, Catch-as-cstch-can heavyweight, to 161 pounds, wrestling O. Kelly, Uni ted Kingdom, best Gunderson, Nor way. Standing high jump Ewry, New York A. C, five feet two inches. 400 meter flat race Carpenter, Cornell, wins, with Robinson, Cam bridge second; Hallswelle, United Kingdom, third, and Tsylor, Irish American A.' C, fourth. No race, because officials said Csrpenter had ,bored" Halleswelle. Carpenter dis qualified. Americans decline to re run race. LONDON, July 23. In the final of 'he 400 meter flat race, J. C. Carpen ter, Cornell University, came in first. A sensation was created when the officials declared it was no race. This decision was reached on the ground . that Carpenter had "bored" Halls welle, the English runner. Boring is the English term for "pocketing." W. C. Robins, Cambridge University, was second; Hallswclq, third, and J. B. Taylor, Irish-American A. C, fourth. Matthew P, Halpin, man ager of the American team, says the Americans will not run the race over. As soon as the decision of the of ficials was made known, the grand stands were in an uproar, the Eng lishmen cheering the anouncemcnt jnent and the Americans hooting it. 'The "boring" is alleged to have oc curred at the corner, coming into the stretch. To the spectators it seemed ( impossible, They could not sec how Carpenter, who had the post, could .avoid coming out a little, as the men already had started to sprint. The judge's decision in the matter is as follows: "The judges decide that the race is void, and they order the same Ho be re-run in strings on Saturday :afternon. Carpenter is disqualified." "Highway robbery is pretty strong language," said Trainer Murphy, "but there are no other words for it, have been up against the English officials for years, and it has always been the same story they would have robbed us of everything if they could. The race was a perfectly fair one, Carpenter had the right of way and Hallswelle should have come be 'hind him. Both Carpenter and Rob "bins had the Englishman beaten from the crack of the pistol, and the English officials could -not bear to se.c their own man beaten in a race which they had counted on winning. "Of course, Carpenter went out a little at the turn. How could he help it with the speed he was making. Why, he finished in 474 seconds. It is all nonsense to talk about fouling. There is one satisfaction to me, how ever ,it shows what the boasted 'fair est sportsmen' in the world will do to win. It proves what I always have said, that these Englishmen will do anything to prevent an American, or anybody besides their own people, winning a race. Vou bet they won't run it over ,and if I had my way every American athlete at the stadium would leave here right away and nev er return to this arena or to Eng land." ; : Mr. Sullivan, who was backed by Joseph B. McCabe and the other members of the American commit tee, said: "Doth Robbins and Carpen ter had Hallswelle run off his legs and they could have won as they liked. We have filed a prtMest with the Olympic committee and won't run the race over. The men, .how ever, will continue in . the other event," .......... i .,. ... Robbins, who comes from Cam bridge, Mass,, and who ran second to Carpenter, said: "I was ahead until we reached the turn, having taken the pole from Carpenter. Quite natural ly, I went out a bit and Carpenter, who was at my shoulder, did like wise, but Hallswelle had lots of room i uont minx nauswciie had any complaint to make, it was an inspec tor at the corner who could not stand seeing his countryman deefated." J, B. Taylor, Irish-American A. C- who was behind the others when he was pulled off the track by the in spector, said: "There was absolutely no sign of any unfairness." The committee of the British Oly mpic Association called a meeting immdeiatety to consider the Ameri can protest. Hallswelle was brought before the committee and stated his case. Nei ther Carpenter nor Robbins was called before the committee. Car penter, when questioned, said simply: "I won fairly and squarely. I never diverged from my path one bit more than was necessary, and I did not get any way near Hallswelle." FOR GREAT HARBOR Stupendous Plans are Contem plated In Frisco Bay WOULD SPEND MILLIONS Federal Engineers Prepare Report Which Recommends Expenditure Of $43,284,195, Increasing Berth Fa cilities To 47 Miles In Length. mi, SA NFRANCISCO. July 23,-Are port which will soob be submitted to Gov. Gillett, Mayor Taylor dnd the Board of Harbor Commissioners, has been prepared by Luther, Wagon er and Col. W. H. Heuer, U, S. A me engineers who are planning a Greater San Francisco harbor. The report recommends the expenditure of $43,284,195 and the issuing of 75 year bonds instead of 20 year as is the usual custom. ' The engineers recommend that the harbor line be moved east and, bay- ward 150 feet. This would include 145 acres of warehouse space and the present berth facilities of 8.3 miles would be increased to 47 miles in length. The suggestion is made that an incline be established at the foot of Market street so that car traffic will be upraised and that an elevated loop bebuilt, . It is also suggested that an effort' be ntade to purchase Yuerba Buena Island from the' Federal srovernment and level it 'off until there would be!tonight " 18 rePrted that hori2ontal plane of 10 feet above water. i nis-woum create over ow icrcs where- railroad terminal facili- ties might be provided. A steel ; bridge is recommended from tlie Ala meda shore to the island, thus bring ing the railroad depot' within one and' one half miles of this- city. IT ENRICHES HUMLtH j k , 'MPf . 1- Standard Oil Stocks Take Big Jump TIP HAD Gone OUT Reversal of Judge Landis' De cision Meant a Market Gift of $15,000,000 SOMEBODY SEEMED TO KNOW Stock of the Standard Corporation Has Been Going up in a Most Sen sational Manner For Week, and it Looks Like a "Leak." CHICAGO, July 23.-The Stand ard Oil decision reversing Judee Landis' $29,000,000 fin is a market gift of $15,000,000 to John D. Rocke feller. Standard Oil Stock went up 48 points in a week. Whatever in fluences may have been responsible, it is a fact that within. the past week, when it was known that a' decision' by the United. State t CourUfApfeals was to be given shortly, the stock of that corporation has been going up in most sensational manner. At the time when the Court of Appeals had the case in hand and its decision'was all but ready for the public. Standard Oil stock shot up in a manner to in dicate confidence on the part of the oil magnates that there was no dan ger of an adverse decision by the court. The gain scored by Standard Oil stock in the week ending yesterday when it was quoted at 660 on the New York curb, totalled 48 points, a record not approached by anything listed in the New York Stock Ex change, and the singular movement of this stock within the past few days has given rise to a good deal of speculation, for never at any mo ment during the pendency of the case did there seem to be any weakening or wavering, in Standard Oil stock. v. Yesterday Standard Oil jumped from 640 to 660, and today there was an advance to 665, which is the highest point reached by this secur ity since 1906, when the high point was 700. Since January of this year Standard Oil has had a generally up ward course, btiJ there were hV sen sational moveifients of the stock fan til recently, ftow it is jumping arid it is not &t all improbable that it will go (o or' beyond the high points of 1905 and 1906; which were 703 and 700, respectively. The high level for the stock it! 1907 was 564. United States District Attorney Sims today announced positively that' ELECTRIC STORM MANY HURT GETTSBURG, July 23. As a f- suit of a terrific electric storm' which passed over Pennsylvania, the' National Guard encampment here ': ' , . tfi leas.- - i 1 L , s,x troopers have been killed and two iv score injured, some of them . iously, by being struck by lightning, The camo is flooded and r.WrAnhi A. service practically at a standstill. The and were taken there during the entire' camp is panic stricken. The .storm was razed to the ground but darkness is impenetrable and the men ' so far as is known' no one was ser- are wildly running about through the i a petition for a rehearing in the case of the Government against the Stand ard Oil Company of Indiana decided adversely to the government by Judge Grosscup yesterday, would be filed. Mr. Sims today received the following telegram from Mr. Bona parte: . . ;: , - ., ;.. 0 'r. , "I feel that you and your asso ciates have done everything possible to protect the interests of the gov 1 ernment and promote justice. I will write fully as soon as the opinion comes to hand." It was learned in New York to day through sources identified with the Standard Oil Company that the $29,240,000 case is not likely to go to the Supreme Court of the United States. Nor is it believed the. case will be retried before Judge Landis, as the Standard Oil Company would protest against it, and ask that some other judge sit in the case. The is sues involve no constutional ques lions such as are necessary to take the action to the supreme court. Judge Peter S. Grosscup's early retirement from the Federal bench was the reason given and generally accepted today for the quick decis ion of the Federal Court of Appeals in the Standard Oil case. The report was to the effect that the judge de sired to clear up his docket so that he could resign and practice law as soon as possible. That the judge 'has been anxious for some time to leave the bench and return to private practice has been known to his close friends. The bench has nothing more to offer him in the way of honors, the work has become irksome, and the pay is unquestionably small compared with what he could earn at the bar, espec ially in corporation law. It is now asserted in legal and business circles that he may be able to get out this summer or early autumn so that his successor can take hold when the court opens in October. BOYCOTT STILL ON Kagu Maru Reaches Victoria With No Chinese WONT USE JAP VESSEL A Chinese Steamship Company Pro jeced to Establish Trans-Pacific Lines Similar To The Nippon Kai sha Is Backed By Chinese. U ISM -4'iJ-.- .... . VICTORIA, B. C, July 25.tTht Steamer Haga Maru reached 'port last night. She had a heavy blow when near the meridan and some of her starboard rail was bent. The boycott which is proceeding at Hongkong aild throughout China" was responsible for the fact that thre weYe no Chinese among the' passeil gers. Two cargoes consisting of 3,500 torts1 included tea, rice, fh'affiiig, curios and general freight. Prof, d, Katera, a profeVsof of harbors of this engineering came fd make an inspec tion of harbors of thi continent. KILLS 6- BY LIGHTNING water seeking the injured. Every tent ' battery ."B" was blown down but 1,0 oti6 m the battery is hurt. The "inlent Sard tent, of the Tenth KegimeiM, was : struck by lightning ,am 40 . , com ..-. ... iniurerf. Tf, MA t,nan,,l mua am th mw r ,Krt u camp waiting for aid. The Y. M. C. tent n,i,i,-v, tf.f ,:, iously injured. EBEilD CAPTURED i Man Who Killed and Sob bed His Aunt CONFESSES THE MURDER Said He Needed Aunt's Money to Marry Girl He Wash Love With PLANNED TO KILL COUSIN Explains Crime in All Its Crtwsome Details 'Leads Police to Spot Where be Buried the Money Stolen. NEW YORK, July 23.-Drawn back td the scene of his crime by the force he could not resist, August Eberhard, the self-confessed mur derer of hi3 aunt, Mrs. Otillie Eber hard, a Viennesse widow, whom he lured to a lonely spot in New Jer sey a few days ago, and shot to death, was captured today near Pat terson, and . is now, a prisoner in Hackensack jail. The reason for Eberhard committing the crime was that he was in iove with a New York girl and that he needed money to marry her. Knowing that his aunt had $2500 he plotted to kill her and to steal the money. Eberhard says he ;also intended to kill his pretty cousin, Ottillie Eberhard, to whom he is engaged, so nothing would stand in the way of his marriage to the New York girl The police have the name of the girl and she will be brought to Hackensack to tell what she knows of the murder. Eberhard was found lying on the lawn of a residence just outside of Patterson. There was an ugly, wound in his leg. whicu the murderer nrst saia was made by Italians who attacked him. He afterwards admitted it was tn flitced by himself to deceive the po lice. Eberhard did not immediately confess. When first questioned. told an ingeniously connected tale 0 having been attacked by Italians and that he tried" Id defend his aunt from them. He said he was shot in th leg by them and after that remem bered nothing until he came to his senses in the Breaknesi Mountains An important point in hli eohfes sio is the statement that he had an accomplice. He said however that his accomplice had nothing to do with the killing of Mrs. Eberhard. This man has fled to the west. The police have his name also. Eberhard" told th"j police he had planned the mur deY two months ago. He wrote many let'teTS to his aunt and to induce her to feave! her home in Germany, he even promised to marry her daughter and make a ioffifortable home for her here. Eberhafd then recounted the killing of the wdnian in all its grew- some detail. He told where he had baried the money he robbed his aunt of and led the police to the spot where $2400 was found buried. MUST SUFFER PENALTY. Roosevelt Says the Prosecution of Standard Oil Must Proceed. OYSTER BAY, July 23-President Roosevelt announced today in unmis takable terms the determination of the administration to proceed with the prosecution of the Standard Oil case despite the decision adverse to the government, which was handed down by the circuit court of appeals at Chicago yesterday. This decision, the president thinks, in no way ef fects the merits of the case and he makes known his decision to cause action to be brought again before tne courts in such shape it possble to prevent technicalities, interfering with the decision based on the actual issues involved. To use the language of the state ment ,issued b Secfetarjr Loeb: "The President would regard it at' a gross miscarriage of ; justice if through any technicalities 'of any kind, the defendant escaped punish ment "which would have unquestion ably been meter out to any weaker defendant, who had been guilty of such an offense." Judge Taft was a guest of the president at Sagamore Hill for sev eral hours today, arriving at three this afternoon. During Taft's visit his speech of acceptance was discussed with the president and Secretary Root, who also are guests of the president. Taft left Oyster Bay in an automobile for New York where he will spend the night. No statement regarding the conference was given out. BAD MAN CAUGHT DEAD. One of the Desperadoes in the Bos ton Shooting Up. BOSTON, July 21-After three deadly battles between three despera does, the police and a small army of citizens, the first encounter being late Tuesday night in a barroom, the. second last night in the peaceful streets of Jamaica Plains, and the third early today in the quiet of a cemetery, one of the bandits was riddled with a hundred bullets and killed, a second, believed to be wounded, was being searched for in the cemetery today, while a third was taken last evening in the south south station. RACE WAR BEGUN Five Hundred Italians Threaten Louisiana Village NEGROES ARENT INVOLVE!) Foreigners Send Word That They Will Wipe Out The Town, And Whites Arc Patrolling The Streets In Expectation Of Trouble. NATALBANY, La., July 23.-The ItP-Hcna have gathered 500 stronir here and have sent word before daylight to wipe ovt the inhabitants of this town. Armed guards are patrolling very street here. All day yesterday, the foreigners were moving out their families lit obedience to the warning of the Italians. The' race trouble started Tuesday ' when Walter Sim mons a young man, interferred in a fight between two small boys and was fatally shot by two Italians who re sented his action. As a result of tfie Simmons shooting two Italians who claim to be innocent of any wrong doing were wounded by a sheriff's posse near Natalbany yesterday and the mutuallly inflicted wrongs have wrought residents and foreigners to a high pitch of anger. Gov. Sanders and the Italan consul at New Orle- ns have been notified. RAILROADS MERGED. DENVER, July 23.-The Denver & Rio Grande, the Rio Grande West em, and all its subsidiary companies in Colorado and Utah with the excep- ion of the Rio Grande Southern were today merged into ? one company hich will be known as the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company. The new company will file their articles of incorporation and after due notice will issue $150,000,000 iq bonds and $88,000,000 in stocks.