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Ore. Historical Society 50VIRSTHI MORNING flf LO ON THC LOWER COLUMBIA PUtUSHCS rUU At BOCIATIO PRESS REPORT 33rd YEAR. NO. 185 ASTORIA, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1908 PRICE FIVE CENT3 jl! Lri I 111 BOBBED OF THFIR WAGES Masked Bandits Hold Up 16 Loggers y. PAY-DAY AT STERLING Victims Secured in Relays and Are Imprisoned After Being Robbed THIEVES GET ABOUT $700 Twelve Lumbermen Owing to Their Numberi Are Allowed to Paat Un moleited in the Midst of the Seriei of Hold-ups. REDDING, Cal, Aug. I2.-Two masked bandits, heavily armed, made wholesale hold-up last night a mile from Eat Stirling on the Feather River bridge 16 miles east of Chico. Sixteen lumbermen returning to camp were the victims. They were not robbed in one bunch but in relay of two, six and eight. Twelve lumbermen were permitted to pass unmolested in the midst of the series of hold-ups. At the cast end of the bridge there is a deserted ' cabin. This was used as a prison for those who had been robbed. It was pay-day at Stirling City and all the boys were returning in high spirits. The first ix arriving at the bridge were confronted by the bandits and stood up. They then were marched to the cabin and robbed by a "Little Fellow" while the "Big Fellow' kept them covered. When the clean-up was made the big robber, a German by accent, left the little man in y charge and went down the road. He soon returned with two more loggers. These went the same route of the f previous six. Again the robber went down the road. Twelve more log . geri were coming up the road in a bunch. There were too many of them and the robber let them pass. Next they turned the eight prisoners loose and told them to keep going; Next, one man came along. He was robbed. Then seven more men came along and they were relieved of their valu ables and were orderd to move along. One of the first squad of victims in stead of obeying cut across the hills back of Stirling and notified the officers. The deputies took up the chase but could find no tract of the robbers. They say the robbers are sure to be caught but give no reason. The hold-up netted them about $700. TAFT WILL SPEAK. At Dedication of Monument to Prison Ship Martyr's. , N.EW YORK, Aug. 11. The invi ' tation extended to Judge William H, Taft to speak at the dedication of the monument to the, prison ship mar tyrs on top of Fort Green Hill, Brook lyn1, has been accepted. The exercis ca will be held on November 14. Congress appropriated $100,000 to erect, the shaft, which is now almost completed. It sands over the graves of the twelve thousand American pa triots who lost their lives in prison ships anchored in Wallabout Bay, Brooklyn, in the Revolutionary war. New York City contributed fifty thou sand dollars, the state gave $25,000 ' ana ine same, sum was raiscu uy vol untary contribution. ' , , BASEBALL GAMES. National League. New York 0, Chicago 4. liohton 2, St. Louis 0. Philadelphia 1, Pittsburg 5. American LeaguC Cleveland 1, Philadelphia 6. Detroit 2, Washington 3. Chicago 6, New York 1. St. Louis 0, Boston 3. Pacific Coaat League. Oakland 5, Sun Francisco 1. Los Angelei 3, Portland 2. "TEDDY" HAS THEM GUESSW. OYSTER BAY, A"- U-Unusual activity at the government executive office here which has been apparent for almost a week, both during the day and often far into the night has Ibeen the subject of considerable curiosity. The executive staff has been, augumcnted by the arrival of two clerks from Washington from the executive office. Acting secretary to the President, Forester, has been making two trips to Sagamore Hill, daily consuming generally about two hours each. On one occasion recently started making a night trip, remaining with the presi dent frequently as late as midnight and sometimes after that hour. Just what is the occasion for this extraor dinary activity cannot be learned. BY WIRELESS. The United Wireless Station on Telegraph Hill, this city, reports the oil tank steamer Col. E. L. Drake as paising the mouth of the river last night at 11 o'clock, bound for San Francisco to Seattle. She . reports "All Well." . , CRAZED BY LIQUOR George Craig of Portland At tempts Murder THEN HE COMMITS SUICIDE Craig Was Employed by Farming I Implement Company, Shoots at Lawrence Wrinkler and Son, But Both Escape. PORTLAND, Aug. 12. -Over-crazed by over-indulgence in liquor, George Craig committed suicide to day in a North End hotel, after hav itiur dred at Lawrence Wrinkler. and the son of Wrinkler, while Wrinkler jwas passing the open door of Craig's ,room. Craig was employed in the 'shipping department of a farm imple ment concern an had been induced to go to his room by a companion. On entering the room Craig ordered his friend out at the point of a pistol. Just then Wrinkler passed along the hall in front of Craig's door. MOTHER SEEKS JUSTICE. After Government And Slayer Of Her Soldier Son. , SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. ll.-Mrs. Mary English, mother of Private W. F. Enelish. of the coast artillery, who 'was shot and killed by a sentry while attempting to escape from the guard house at the presido last Wednesday declares that she will bring a murder charge against Private Ryan who did J the shooting and also institute suit for damages in the sum ot $WU,uuu against the United States Govern ment. English, according to his mo ther's statement, had not recovered from an illness which led to his treat ment at the insane ward prior to his discharge in January. , He later re enlisted but Mrs. English says that his trouble came back on him and that he should have been sent to the hospital and not the guard house. Pri vate Ryan is now being tried for the Shooting of English, by court mar tial, this being the military practice in such cases. IB WIPES OUT TON 300 Inhabitants of Koot enai Are Homeless SAND POINT IN DANGER Hum bird Lumber Company Lose a $200,000 Plant In the Conflagration SPOKANE SEND FIRE FIGHTERS Sand Point, Idaho, Has a Population of 10,000 and the Approaching Flames Are Being Fought by 500 Volunteers. SPOKANE, Aug. 12. -A Sand Point, Idaho, special to the -Spokesman .Review says: , With the wind blowing a gale and the adjacent town of Kootenai wiped out it seems now that no power can save Sand Point. At 6 o'clock this evening a small forest fire north of Kootenai was blown into the town and the town of three hundred inhab itants was burned to the ground. The Humbird Lumber Company has a $200,000 plant at Kootenai which was burned to the ground and only partly isured. At present the fire is only 2000 feet from the Panhandle Smelter which seems doomed. The homeless people of the little hamlet of Koote nai have been brought here and are being cared for. Over 500 volunteers are fighting the approach of flames. Sand Point has a population of about 10,000. n appeal has been sent to the Spokane fire department for aid. It is impossible at midnight to learn the extent the damage by the fire at Sand Point. Telegraph wires are down and connections has been lost with the regular telephone line, but the operator of the independent office at Sand Point says the town is in no immediate danger. Reports are con flicting about the smelter at Ponder ley, one report declaring it is burned and an other that the smelter is still safe. A special train left Spokane at II o'clock with a steamer and hose cart. Sand Point is 70 miles distant and it is expected that the run will be made in an hour and a half. IS FALSE, THEY SAY. Kentucky County Officials Deny the . , Governor's Charges, AUGUSTA, Ky., Aug. ll.-County Judge S. T. Bradford and County At torney George B. Kinney, of Brac ken County yesterday issued the fol lowing statement in answer to Gov ernor Wilson's charge that they have not done their duty: , ; "The statement from Governor Willson that the county judge and county attorney of Bracken county have failed to do their duty as officers of said county, is false. They have been ready able and willing at all times to do their duty, and the coun ty of Bracken at the present -time and for months past has had no trouble of any character, other than the trou ble caused by the Governor's troops riding the turnpike and intimidating and frightening citizens and creating an expense unnecessary, . ; "The Governor of Kentucky never made an investigation of the facts and situation in Bracken county. He has listened to false Statements, made by the merican Tobacco Company those who are opposed to the American So ciety of Equity." DEALING WITH HONDURAS. State Department Takes Up Matter of Exequsteurs. WASHINGTON, Aug. li.-The State Department is taking up direc tly with the government of Hondu ras the settlement of the question arising from the cancellations of the exequateurs of the American consul and vice consular officers at Ceiba, which was done by President Davila because of the alleged intervention of those officers in the political affairs of Honduras. For this purpose it has directed Mr. Dodge, the American minister at Salvador, to proceed at once to Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras for conferences with the of ficials of the foreign offices there. ELECTIONS IN CUBA. Conservatives Seem to Have Carried the Contest HAVANA, Aug. 10. Approximate ly complete returns for the provin cial and municipal elections of con servative governors and provincial councils in Santa Clara, Mantan zas, and Pinar del Rio Provinces. The returns for the election show that out of about 440,000 registered voters about 260,000 cast their votes of which the Conservatives received 104,000; the Miguelites 93.640, and the Zeayaists 60,000. This leaves about 160,000 registered electors who did not vote. The Conservatives claim the majority of these and claim they will give them a preponderance of power in the presidential election, over the othe"r two parties. STREET CARS .CRASH Three Killed in Bad Collision in Ohio Town NEARLY FORTY ARE INJURED Both Trolley Cars Were Late and in Addition to Their Usual High Speed Are Said to Have Been Making up For Lost Time. . PIQUA, O., Aug. ll.-Three per sons were killed and nearly forty oth ers were injured, several of whom are not - likely to survive, when the two limited electric cars of the Western Ohio Traction Company collided at a sharp curve a few miles north of here last night. The dead: JAMES KEHOE, passenger, Day ton, O. WILLIAM McCLELLAN, passen ger, Lockington, O. WILLIAM BAILEY, motorman, Piqua, 6, Both trolley cars were late and in addition to their usual high speed are said to have been making up lost time. It is said that the south bound' car had orders to lay over at a sel dom used . siding just south of Sid ney, there to wait until the north bound car from here passed. As the south bound car rounded a curve just before reaching the switch the north bound car hove in sight, approaching at a high rate of speed. In an in stant there was a crash. The south bound car telescoped and was almost completely reduced to splinters. It was on this car that the greatest num ber were injured. ALASKA ELECTION RETURNS SEATTLE, Aug. 12. Specials by cable to the Post-Intelligencer from Treadwell, 'juneau, Douglass, Sitka, Skagwayv Raines, Wranglell, give the following incomplete returns of to day's Alaska elections. Delegate to congress, Wict:ersham 500, Corson 300, Roman 175, Chilber 564, Glum 1. RETURNS ARE INCOMPLETE Victory Indicated for the Machine of Both Sides KABN AND HAYS LEAD Lincoln-Roosevelt League Car ries But 4 of 17 Districts in San Francisco AND BELL GETS 6 DISTRICTS Lincoln-Roosevelt League at Los Angtle', Elected 148 Delegates Out of 332 But at Fresno Elected All Delegates. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12.-At 11 o'clock tonight the returns from the Republican and Democratic pri maries which are being held through out the State today are incomplete, but the figures indicated the- regular organization or the machine in both' parties had won a victory. There is no contest in the independence leagut or FJrialist and union-labor parties. In San Francisco the Lincoln-Roosevelt League carried but four of the seventeen districts and one of those is in doubt. In the Democratic side Bell, or the opposition ticket, had carried only six districts. Organization of Republican ticket has carried the fourth and fifth con gressional districts, assuring the re nomination of Congressman Kahn an Hays. At Los Angeles the Lincoln-Roosevelt league elected 148 delegates out of 332, but 80 per cent of Los Angeks county gave the league a majority of 25 in the county convention. San Diego city went for the "Regulars" but in the county the league was more successful. It is thought the "Regulars" will control the convention. In Alameda county the league. will control 135 out of 225 delegates. All of the candidates for the assembly in this county are pledged to the re-election of United States Senator Perkins. The organi zation has carried Santa Clara courity. In Stockton the organization carried every ward. The Lincoln-Roosevelt League elected all the delegates in Fresno. Landslide for organization in Sacra mento. CHAFIN IS CHIPPER. Aged Candidate Thinks Prohibition ists May Elect Him. CHICAGO, Aug. ll.-Eugene W. Chafin, presidential nominee of the Prohibition party, arrived in Chicago yesterday from Lincoln, Neb. He will leave Chicago immediate ly, but will return next Tuesday to, be notified of his nomination. He will then tour every state in the Union, speaking three to eight times a day until election. "Wouldn't it have been awful if I had come to my death by water?" he said, speaking of his escape from drowning in the Y. M. C. A. natator- ium, at Lincoln. "I don't mind for myself, but it would be tough on the party to lose its head in that way, so until the election is over I'm not go ing to have anything to do with wa ter except by the glassful."; . "Do you expect to be elected?" "It would be a rejection on the in justice of the American public for me to think otherwise." 1 - WANTED IN HELENA. Four Men And A Woman Are Arres ted in Detroit HELENA, Mont., Aug. ll.-Louis Martin, John Maguns, Louis Ceste, Ritce Schoff, alias Magnus, and Mary Due, alias Jac, arrested in Detroit last Sunday, are wanted here on a charge of safe blowing, buglary, and forgery. It is said the crimes were committed here several months ago. The prisoners lived on Clore Street here,' in the restricted district, for some time and after they left the po lice secured information , which led them to believe the men knew some thing about crimes which had been committed. NEEDED THE MONEY. President of Guatemala Is Charged With Strange Methods. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. ll.-CG. Cano, of the American Trading Com pany, an arrival on the steamship Ac- apulco from Central America yester day, tells a rather strange tale of the methods of President Cabrera of Gua temala. Cano says that during his stay at Guatemala City the represen tative of a tobacco firm of Honduras closed a deal with a Gautemala mer chant receiving a check for eleven thousand pesos. As he left the merchant's office he was seized by two soldiers and hustled to jail where he was tortured, until he signed the check over to Cabrera. Cano says that on his advice the merchant stop ped payment. . . RAN INTO A DITCH Bad Wreck on the Northern Pa cific Railway TWO KILLED, MANY INJURED Engineer Did Not See That Fire Had Destroyed a Small Bridge Be fore it Was Too Late Fireman and a Tramp Dead. . GLENDIVE, Mont, Aug.. 11. Northern Pacific train No. 2, the North Coast Limited, met with a dis astrous wreck about 12 miles east of GJendive, last evening. Fireman A. B. Matthews and an unknown tramp were killed and probably 20 or 30 in jured. Many of those injured were not seriously hurt and alt but one, Wilson, an express messenger, will recover.. The train was traveling pro bably at a speed of 50 miles an hour, when within two miles of Allard Sta tion it rounded a curve and ran into a burned bridge about 15 feet long. Engineer Litch could not see that the structure was out until the train was virtually on the chasm. When he did see it he quickly reversed the engine and threw on the emergency brakes, which action prevented all the coa ches except the smoker and mail car from going into the ditch. A relief train bearing physicians left this city at once for the scene of the accident and a wrecking train was made up and is now at work clear ing the track. The dead, together with all the in- t jured, were brought to Glendive and are now being cared for. BRYAN ADDRESSES PRINTERS. FAIRVIEW, Aug. 12.-Bryan was tonight the principal speaker at a banquet given by the Lincoln Typo graphical Union in honor of- G. Humphrey O'Sulivan, of Lowell, Mass. Bryan was vociferously ap plauded throughout. Bryan't speech dealt with the usefulness of labor or ganizations. He believes in them and believes that the improvement in la bor conditions is due to their influ ence. . .