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'da Historical Society C 1 II n II IN IH II IB SOVER8THC MORNING FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA PUIUSMCS FULL Afff OCIAfCO PRCtt RCPQRT 33rd YEAR. NO. 173 ASTORIA, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, , 1908 PRICE FIYE CENTS E For tbc Candidates of the Independent Party BRYAN CAUSES A RIOr Sheperd, of Kansas, Mentions Democrat's Name and Is Put Out of the Hall NARROWLY ESCAPE VIOLENCE Thorn L. Hiagen of Mamchuett la Nominated on the Third Bal lot With Large Majority Over Howard. CHICAGO. July 2U President: Thomai L Hisgen of Massachusetts. Vice -Prenidcnt: John T. Crave of Georgia. The above ticket .tonight was nomi nated by the independence party at it first national convention. Friend of Mr. Bryan made an effort during the night tension to bring hi name before the conven tion and J. C. Sheperd, of Kanas, mho attempted it nearly caused a riot and narrowly escaped physical vio lence at the hands of the indignant; delegates. At the hand of the guards of hevcral scVgcants-at-arms he was hustled out of hall while some of in censed delegates vainly attempted to strike him and one of them savagely truck at him with a cane. Hisgcn's nomination came on in the third ballot. When the night session was called to order, Chairman Walsh announced that the presentation of candidates for nomination for president wa in order. Alabama placed in nomination N. W. Howard of Fort Wayne. Ala.; Rev. Rolland D. Sawyer of Massa chusetts nominated Thomas L. His gen of that state and then came Shep ard's disastrous attempt to nominate Bryan. After quiet had finally been restored, Judge John Palmiere of New York placed Reuben R. Lyon of that state in nomination. Ohio nominated W. R. Hearst, On the first two ballots no nomina tion resulted. On the third ballot Hisgen received 831 votes, Howard 38, Graves 77 and Hearst 22. Hisgen was declared nom inated. The convention then proceed ed with the nomination of vice-president and John Temple Graves- re ceived it. The convention at 1 :24 ad journed without delay. The nominations were made at the tiinht session, after the platform had been adopted this afternoon which, in brief declare that the independence party is for the purpose of wresting . - . ... r - e - a I. the controrof public affairs from the hands of selfish interests and cor rupt bosses, and to make the govern ment agency of common good. The platform endorse the 8-hour day; the protection of laborers by safety ap-1 pliances, ana nygicnic conmuuns, em ployers' liability, laws, prohibition of child labor, condemns prison made goods, the creation of cabinet depart ment" of commerce and labor to in clude mines and mining, insists that the right to issue money is inherent with government; demands , revision of tariff to be made gradually, dis crimination by railroads, is condemn ed and to prevent it. The establish--ment of interstate commerce court, is advocated whose purpose it shall be to review and enforce the summarily orders of the interstate commerce . . i . i Hi H1SGEN AND GRAVES communion. The combination In re straint ( trade are condemned and prison sentences for violator! of anti trust law advocated, The plat form declare for government owner hip of public utilities, parcel poit, and pontal aving bank. Asiatic Im migration opposed. Other plank ad vocate a rtong navy, the improve ment of national highway, the pro tection of American citizen abroad, and the popular election of United State Senator. BURNED AT THE STAKE. Tad Smith, Charged With Aiiault, Executed in Sight of 100 People. DALLAS. Tex., July 28. -Tad Smith, a negro boy, aged 18, charged with assault on Mit Viola Dclancey. of Clinton, Hunt county, . yesterday afternoon, wa captured by officers early today. He w taken before the young lady and identified. The boy wa then hurried to the Greenville Jail. Before arriving there however, a mob of citizen overpow ered the officers, took the prisoner and prepared to hang him. The idea was given up, however, and the mob agreed to burn him at the (take. Faggots were piled up in the public square at Greenville and the negro was placed thereon. Kerosene oil was poured on and a match applied. Smith slowly burned to death while limO people witnessed the execution by fire. U. P. DECLARES DIVIDENDS. NEW YORK, July 28.-The Union Pacific Railroad Company today de clared a quarerly dividend of 2 J per cent on its common stock and a semi annual dividend of 2 per cent on its referred stock. The Southern Pacific Company declared a quarterly divi dend of one and one-half per cent on common stock. All these dividends are unchanged from the last previous quarter. GIVES WIFE MONEY Chicago Man Makes Her Inde pendent of Him PAYS HER SO MUCH A YEAR Lake Forest Couple Surprise Their Friends A Little, But Husband Says He Did It Only To Facilitate Wife's Money Matters. CHICAGO, July 28,-Lake Forest was given a surprise yesterday when two well known residents of the su burb filed for record a compact which in other cases might be expected to accompany proceedings for. a legal separation. But in their case it is no thing of the sort. The parties invol ved are Henry Gordon Strong and Mrs. Margaret Hubbard Strong. Mr. Strong is a son "of General Henry Strong, and a member of the Chicago, Union League and Onwentsia Clubs. Mr. and Mrs. Strong reside in Lake Forest and at present are making their home at the Onwentsia. By the (terms of the compact which is placed ' lf J n r P... L..L on record Mr. and Mrs. Strong both release all dower or inheritance rights from each other, while Mr. Strong agrees to pay his wife $4,000 a year for the first ten years after July 1, 1909, $4,500 a year for the second ten i . i r . ff J nnn - .... years and then after $5,000 a year un til her death. Mr. Strong declared last night, that the arrangement was to "facilitate" his wife's financial affairs. He said that Mrs. Strong goes to Europe alone frequently and that he wanted her "to be able to manage her own af fairs and not be left utterly helpless." The agreement provides that pay ments shall not be cancelled. by the death of Mr. Strong, but shall con tinue an obligation on his estate. They shall cease in the event of the death of Mrs. Strong. ' GREAT FIRE IN SWEEPS SEVERAL Threatened North End of the City and Damage Into Hundreds of Thousands FLAMES WERE FANNED Barr Hotel at Sixth and Glison Is Gutted and Stables of Several Transfer Companies Also Destroyed Conflagration Believed to Have Started in Some New Hay FLAMES STARTED IN STABLES THEY BADE FAIR TO DESTROY NORTH END OF THE CITY, BUT WERE MAINLY STOPPED BY BRICK WALLS, THOUGH FOR A TIME A TERRIBLE CONFLAGRATION SEEMED INEVITABLE. PORTLAND, July 28. -A fire which broke out at 5:30 this after noon destroyed an area equivalent to almost four blocks and did actual damage estimated at $225,000 and for hours it jeopardized the entire north end of the city with its millions of dollar worth of buildings. No live were lost and there was only one in jured. This was Edward LeRone, a lineman, who was seriously burned and shocked by electricity while cut ting the power wire. The flames started in the stables of the Oregon Transfer Company, near Fifth and Hoyt streets, and are be lieved to have been caused by spon taneous combusion in the new hay. Four transfer companies have stables in this block and within 10 minutes all the building in the block with the exception of a couple of stores on the immediate corner of Sixth and Glisan streets were afire. A high wind fanned the flames against the windows of the Barr Hotel, a four-story brick on Sixth and Glisan streets, and soon this structure was a seething furnace. It was gutted. South of the hotel, the fire got into a two-story brick building used by small storekeepers and as a lodging house and almost gutted the build ing. The Oregon Casket Company, a six -story brick plant on the south east corner of this block, presents two blank walls to the northwest, and 300 CHINESE DROWNED. CANTON, July 28.-The Chinese steamer Ying'King, engaged in the local passenger trade, foundered yes terday during the typhoon. Three hundred Chinese are known to have been drowned. Only 12 of those on board were rescued. The Ying King was of 798 tons, 200 feet long and owned in Hongkong. JAP SHIP LEAVES 'FRISCO. SAN FRANCISCO, July 28,-The Japanese training ship Taisel Maru, on which are several hundred cadets who are being trained for the Jap anese merchant marine, sailed today for Panama, whence she will proceed to Kapika Bay in Colombia and from there to Honolulu and then back to Yokohama. AFTER STANDARD OIL. Attorney-General Bonaparte Makes a Fresh Attack on the Trust. LENOX, Mass., July 28.-Plans for another great battle in the courts with representatives of the Standard Oil Company will be worked out here in the Berkshire Hills within the next few days. , . Under the direction of Attorney- General Bonaparte, who is passing his vacation time in Lenox, the first move in the new action which it is understood is to be brought, by the government against the Standard Oil PORTLAND BLOCKS Runs FURIOUSLY BY WIND OF OREGON TRANSFER CO. these stopped the fire in this block. The Casket Company suffered little damage. In the meantime the fire jumped across Fifth street and con sumed the entire half block between Glisan and Hoyt Its progress to the cast was stayed by the high brick walls of the Union Meat Co., which occupies the east half block. This half block was occupied by stables and by blacksmiths and wagon shops. From here the fire jumped across Glisan street at Fifth, and caugljt in another large stable. This was burn ed down as well as the machine shop lying between it' and the establish ment of the Pacific Coast Construc tion, the construction company;s plant was undamaged, but the flames sucked around the southwest corner of the building and destroyed one story frame building which faced on Fourth street. Again the fire was met by high brick walls and its pro gress halted. Within these bounds, by great efforts the firemen managed to hold the fire. The fire bade fair to destroy the greater part of the north end of the city. Other than the row of bricks which hedged it in, there are few but frame buildings for a quarter of a mile in the direction the wind was blowing and for a time, the man ner in which the flames were carried by the wind, seemed to make a ter rible conflagration inevitable. Company is to be made here and the machinery of the Department of Jus tice set in motion. This action fol lowing the recent decision of the United States Court of Appeals at Chicago setting aside the judgment of $29,240,000 returned by Judge Landis against the company indicates that the announced intention of the administration to renew the proceed ings is to be carried out promptly. Mr. Bonaparte will be joined today by Frank B. Kellogg, of Minneapolis, whose conduct of anti-trust cases for the government brought him na tional renown and they will review the present legal status of the case and discuss the details of further ac tion. For assistants they will have the services of half a score of trained legal experts in the Department of i Justice in Washington. Vv'ILL RAISE STRIKE FUND. DENVER, July 28.-In order to be prepared for future strikes, the con vention of the Western Federation of Miners today ordered the executive board to levy per capita assessment sufficiently large to raise a $100,000 strike fund. All work of the conven tion, except the election of officers, is now completed. PRINCE SAILS. QUEBEC, July 28,-The Prince of Wales' visit came to an end tonight when the Prince set said shortly after midnight. ' MYSTERIOUSLY BURNED. ST. JOHN, Or, July 28,-The old street car depot at North Hill, which was recently moved to McKenna avenue by Francis . McKenna, and which resulted in a controversy be tween Mr.. McKenna and a man named Meyers, was burned about 3 o'clock Sunday morning. Wile the origin of the fire is unknown, it is intimated that the station was set on fire. .( ! -.',' -'' ,- AGED MAN DROPS DEAD. SEATTLE, July 28. J. D. Weller, 74 years old, a prominent business man of Tacoma, and member of the firm of the Weller Grocery Company, dropped dead in front of Fannie Paddock Hospital yesterday. He had been in the hospital a week, and paid his bill and left this morning. He had just reached the bottom of the stairs when he dropped dead from a stroke of apopfexy. WILL ANSWER LATER. LINCOLN, July 28.-After reading Judge Taft's letter of acceptance, W. J. Bryan stated that later he would make some comments for the public. EX-GOVERNOR SICK. STOCKTON, July 28.-Ex-Gover- nor James H. Budd is seriously ill at his home in this city and according to the statement of his physician his con dition is alarming. Governor Budd has been ailing for many months but it is only since his return from Eu rope a month ago that his symptoms have become grave. A consultation of physicians was held late last night and the fear is expressed that the pa tient will not survive through the day. Relatives have been gathered" at the bedside since last evening expectng the end at any moment. BIG HAUL OF FISH Phenomenal Catch of Blue Fish Is Made BIG PROFITS FOR THE MEN An Aggregate Of 50,000 Pounds Of Blue Fish Taken In A Few Hours Off Of New Jersey Shore Brings 5 Cents The Pound. NEW YORK, July 28.-Deep sea fishermen of Sea Bright, N. J. made a phenominal catch of blue fish yes terdays At sunrise two hundred brawny seamen who follow handline fishing, put off to the banks opposite Seabright in one hundred fishing boats. About three miles off shore they ran into a big school of "Blues" and for several hours were kept busy hauling in. In the afternoon the fishermen re turned, each boat carrying from 500 to 600 pounds of fish.The catch ag gregate 50,000 pounds was sold to commision houses at the rate of- 5c a pound. The fishermen, received for their day's work $5,100. I INITIATION BY WIRE. Unique Procedure in United Commer cial Travelers. DENVER, July 28.-For the first time in history the work of a secret order will be transmitted by long distance telephone when Manley J. Hemmens, supreme counselor of the United Commercial travelers, will sit in his home in Green Bay, Wis., and listen to the initiation of 50 candi dates by Pike Peak Council No. 15 Saturday night, August 8. That absolute secrecy may be in sured it has been arranged to place members of the order in charge of all connections along the line as well as at Green Bay and Denver. vast en HEARS TAFT Formally Accepted Nomi nation for Presidency .. -.- ..... HE ATTACKS BRYAN Says Democratic Platform De clarations are Inconsistent and Dangerous A HOLIDAY AT CINCINNATI Taft Delivers Address From Portico of His Brother's Home Speaks For an Hour and Seven Minutes Amid Great Cheering. CINCINNATI, July 28.-Officially notified today of his nomination for the presidency by the republican party, William H. Taft, standing on the portico of his brother's home in this , city, he formally accepted the honor and pledged his allegience to the policies of President .Roosevelt, and declared that the function of the next republican administration would be to clinch what had already been accomplished by the present occupant of the White House. In'doing this however, Taft pointed out, in what is regarded as a conservative note, in his adderss that there would be a ser ious and difficult work to do, princi pally to "Devise ways and means in which the high level of business in tegrity and obeyance to law, which he (President Roosevelt), has estab lished, may be maintained, and a de parture from it be restrained without an undue interference with legiti mate business." Taft attacked the democratic platform asserting that most of its declarations were either inconsistent or dangerous. Bryan's politics were held up as being de structive. A vast audience heard Taft for one hour and seven minutes that was required to deliver his address of acceptance. Because of the intense heat which he appeared to feel more keenly than those on the open lawn, he cuts his enunciation of the principles of many places passing over the entire sheets of manuscript at the time explaining his course and reason therefore in order that his hearers might read the entire speech as it comes out for publication. The occasion of notification and acceptance was made a holiday by the loyal residents of Cincinnati, all of whom without regard to party affilia tion seemed to take part in the vary ing demonstrations. There were con certs, parades, flag raising, daylight firewtorks and reception for the notifi cation committee. From the brilliant ly lighted river the steamer Taft was' surrounded by visiting politicians to witness the night display. Following the' delivery of his speech, Taft was called upon to review the militia pa rade. Probably half of those in line were colored members of the Taft clubs organized in this and the neigh boring states. BASEBALL GAMES. Pacific Coast League. Portland 10, San Francisco 3. ,Los Angeles 1, Oakland 2. National League. Philadelphia 1, 1, St. Louis 0, 3. Boston 3, Cincinnati 4. Brooklyn 2, Chicago 4. New York 2, Pittsburg 2, darkness. American League. Cleveland 5, Boston 3. Chicago 0, Philadelphia 2. St. Louis 1, Washington 2. T' K