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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1908)
33rd YEAR. NO. 201 ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 1908 PRICE FIYE CENTS GI RESCUES CHUMS Fffl.1 RIVER Miss Evelyn Carey, Port land, the Heroine THE CANOE CAPSIZES Young Ladies Attempt to Stand Up In Boat Causes the Accident ONE HELD IN DEATH-CLASP Ont Olrl Who Is an Expert Swimmer U Caught Around Neck by Her Panic-Stricken Companion and Both , Narrowly Escape Death. rORTLAN'D, Aug. 29.-Mi Ev elyn Carey, daughter of Judge Chai. H. Carey, became a heroine yesterday afternoon when she rescued Mis llillcr, of 712 Washington street, and Vm Mildred Honeyman from drown ing in the Wiflamette river. ; All the young people are members of the younger society let of Portland, and arc well known.; The accident and the reMtliant rescue occurred near Riverside, where the Carey mansion I. s xitiia.rd The Mifine -Honeyman .and Hiller, with Mis Josstlyn, daughter of Ben-, age S. Jostelyn, president of the i I'ortland Railway, Light & Power j Company, were guests of Miss Carey, and the party were disporting on the ! ! ... IIMt.. .-.I 11. Ua..... i rivlT. inner uu ai!i nuiiij- man were boating in a canoe, while Mia Josslyn and Miss Carey were in a flat bottom boat ,ln the vicinity. Mis llillcr, not being familiar with the crankiness of canoe,, stood up in the tiny craft and thereby rocked the boat. Both the young women were plung ed overboard into the chilly river, while the canoe rolled over and over, settling itself bottomide up. .Miss Honeyman is an expert swlm Sncr, and might have saved herself, despite the handicap of having on all Iter clothing, but for the action of Mix Hiller. The latter girl cannot swim, and when she fell into the Willamette became panic-stricken. She rose to. the surface , at' the side of Miss Honeyman, and when the latter attempted to take her compan ion by the shoulders and swim to the shore, -Miss Hiller flung her, arms around the- neck of her would-be rescuer. " WALLA WALLA FIRE DOES BIG DAMAGE Loss Will Exceed. Forty Thousand Dollars in the '..',' Business Portion of the City ' WALLA WALLA, Aug. 29,-A fire 6t Starbuck early today destroyed a large portion of the business section. The loss is estimated in, excess, of $40,000. ; j. 'It is, believed a. cigar', butt thrown on the gtarwoy of the I. O. O. F. hall where a dance was in progress last night was the cause. Strenuous work of the citizens and the fire. depart ment with the assistance of an en gine of the O. R. & N. saved a much greater destruction of property. Losses with insurance Sproul & E- lilHli Mrs. Williams Husband, Who Was Suspected, Proves Alibi ATLANTIC CITY, Aug, 29.-Up to this afternoon the police made little progress toward solving the mystery of the shooting of Charles B. Roberta, on the board walk Wednes day night, while he was riding in a closed rolling chair with Mrs. W.-S.' C. 'Williams. No warrants were is sued and no such action will be taken until the police know who did the shooting. Roberts is resting easy The bullet is . still, in his liver and there Is fears that complications will ct In, Williams told detectives today that be aloptd at his Long Green home at noon last Wednesday and nightly until Friday morning.' He was veri fied by his colored butler. A theory suggested by Chief Woodruff today to the effect that Roberts' assailant may have been a woman disguised as a man and that Mrs. Williams may hare been the real target ' AMERICA IS WATCHING VENEZUELA AND WILL BE GUIDED BY DE VELOPMENTS THAT ARISE SAYS OFFICIAL. ' IN DISPUTE WITH CASTRO States no Formal or Informal Con Ferences of the Diplomatic Rela tione of Great Britain and the United States. WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-Fol-lowing the report frqm London of the posibiljty of great Britain assisting Holland lusher dispute with President Castro, an official of the state depart ment said todaythat the United States is watching and awaiting the develop ments of the VencBucln affairs and will be guided by the events as they arc developed. He states no formal or informal conferences of the diplo matic relatives of the Great Britain and the United States in reference to the action of Holland toward Vene zuela. PORTLAND SHOOTING. PORTLAND, Aug. 29.-A quarrel tonight in a North End saloon a man giving the name of Oscar Harald, a German, shot and perhaps fatally wounded an unknown German com panion. 1 ' "" ! Barnliart, merchandise, $15,000, insur I ance, $4,000; Waltcf Bros., .merchan i dise, $9000; insurance, $5001); I. O. O. I P. Lodge, $12000, insurance, i $400; Masonic Lodge, $150, no 'insurance; K.'of P., $300, no insurance; Fireman's Lodge, $400, no insurance; Engineers' Lodge, $100, no 'insurace; James Mc Doough, personal effects, $250, . no insurance; telephone station, $400, no insurance; J. G. Muntinga, building, $4000, insurance, $2500; Mrs. Stahl, building $300; Mike Roy, .building, '$100. There were a number" of small losses.,.. ROBERTS SHOOTING R II I HID MYSTERY to TAFT'S FISHING TRIP IS NOT FOR PLEASURE ALONE Republican Candidate Makes: Many Speeches on His Way to Fishing Grounds BIG CROWDS GREET HIM AT EVERY STATION Judge Taft Denies the Report Circulated That He Said One Dollar a Day Was Enough for the Laboring Man Attacks the Democratic Platform COLUMBIA, O., Aug. 29.-Taft today went through this state, leaving behind a trail of speches that will doubtless surprise campaign man agers who expect the trip from Vir ginia Hot Springs to the Middle Bass Fishing Club devoid of politics, but at Athens, after delivering a speech he had prepared for the veterans and which had no politcs in it, Taft was whisked away to the Taft Club where following the introduction by Arthur I. Vorys, he spoke for 40 minutes. "There is one brief way to deal with the story circulated that I have said a dollar a day is enough for any laboring man, declared Taft, "It's a lie and its speaker came down on both heels of both feet in emphasis. . Taft defended his judicial decisions in labor cases and said he would be willincr to leave it to the judgment of any man who had read the records. He expressed approval of labor or ganizations and dissected the labor plank of the democratic platform with the conclusion that if enforced, it will be a weakening power of courts and respiting in loss in the rights of labor. The political demands on Taft be gan before 8 a. m. at Charles, W. Va,, and continued in all the towns and cities passed through including Tole do which was reached just before 11 o'clock tonight. Taft admitted the day for the demonstrated campaign rnionp n nnrnnnn rULOUl ii uriuHiuu ii WARNING SUBSCRIBERS Girl Remains at Her Switchboard Until She Is Locked in Death SEVEN MORE ADDED First Definite News Reaches Trinidad 21 Hours After Flood, When the First Train Arrives With Refugees From Stricken Town TRINIDAD, Colo., Aug. 29Be tween 20 and 30 dead, nearly half the town swept away, thousands of dol lars damage to town property, and great loss of livestock tell briefly the storv of the flood at Folsom early yesterday. Twenty-four hours after the disaster the first definite news from the stricken town reached this city, when refugees and passengers of a stranded Colorado & Southern train reached the city shortly after 3 o'clock this morning. Z'o Mrs. S.'J. Rooke, telephone op erator, who lost her life in the flood, many residents owe their rescue. In face of certain -death, this brave woman stayed in a doomed building until every method of escape was cut off by water, sending alarms to every resident who, had a telephone. To the list yesterday known to have been drowned are added seven more victims. t They are: Charles Wheeler, Mrs. ' Charles Wheeler, Mrs. S. J. Rooke, Antonio was on and added be was not sorry. In his address at the Taft Club, at Athena, which is regarded as the most important political utterance day, Taft enumerated the problems of the government beginning; in the Spanish war, the Philippine question, Panama Canal, Cuba, irrigation of arid lands, reclamation af lands, and "Yes," he sid, "I ask you whether there is a single stain upon its exe cution of the Republican party under Theodore Roosevelt in meeting all these new problems. Not only that but in the respect to our affairs, ner er in the history of the nations has the standard of the United States occupied a higher place before all the nations in the world than today," and declared that never has any president any administration or any emperor or monarch done 1 more to preserve peace in the world than Roosevelt the head of this administration. Asserting the wonderful prosperity of the country under the Dingley bill of 1907, Taft declared the introduction into the power of the democratic par ty under its present leadership will create a doubt of the future in the minds of 'the peoples' minds, those who will invest capital and declared unless "You can bring about confi dence you may be certain the return to prosperity which is now gradually assuming a definite form will halt again." P. - Trap by Flood TO THE DEATH LIST Salazar, Miss Salazar, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Guerin. Many are still missing, and several days may elapse before a complete list of dead is obtainable. Residents of the town who lived on high ground and beyond the reach of the torrent saw - houses containing families crying for aid swept away be fore their eyes, powerless to render them any assistance. ' Eye-witnesses of the disaster tell of . seeing lights dickering for a moment in doomed buildings and hearing the structures C!-'i together as they diifted into narrow canyon and were crushed like ;its of pasteboard. . Some lights could be seen a distance of nearly a mile down stream before the buitdr ings were finally broken up and the occupants drowned. An entire row of buildings was completely swept away and others were jammed together a shapeless ,mass hundreds of , yards from their foundations. Everywhere are seen bodies of drowned cattle and flLTTO nCATU ILLIO ULfllll THE WOOD QUESTION FOR EAST STATES Secretary of Agriculture Wilson Returns From Trip . WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. -Secretary of Agriculture VVilsorv returned from a extended trip in the western states. "The of question getting enough wood to most of the states east of the divide cannot be determined by plant ing timber to meet the requirements of the people, but ,the growing of something on the watersheds should be attended to and that is being close ly studied by the department of agri culture. ' . "I found that at 5000 feet elevation in the deadwood forest reserve, that broadcast seeding on the last snows, in the spring is a success. It is out of the question to re-foret the water shed of the country with a spade There is too much to do. The work must be done in a wholesale manner." RIVAL FIGHT FOR GIRL MEN STRUGGLE IN HAND TO HAND BATTLE OVER FOUN DRY FURNACE. ONE KILLED WITH CROWBAR Men Have Been Enemies For a Long Time and Each Were Waiting For Chance to do Away With the Other. CHICAGO, Aug. 29.-Through the leath tod?.y of Nicholas Vidovism, a storv of a dramatic hand to hand Uruggle in the top blast of the fur nace of the Iroquois Iron Company, for the possession of a pretty Polish airl is made known. Vidovicsm, ac cording to George Detlick, an eye witness, crept behind his rival, Ivan Mealitch and attempted to" throw him into the fiery pit below. Both men fell on a narrow platform, recovered '.heir .footing and continued the strug gle. The news spread about the works and all hands gathered to watch the thrilling struggle with its background of flames. Sudenly Mealitch broke and felled his antagonist with a crow bar. He gave himself up to the po lice. He declared his rival has long been seeking a chance to throw him into the furnace. , v". 1 . t. '1 I '. J norses. vjmy sione uuuuiugs u those on higher , ground were left standing. LOVERS FIERCE STILL DANGER OF WATER SHORTAGE Power Plant at Columbia, S. Carolina, Out of Com mission, But Flood Is Receding COLUMBIA, S. C, Aug. 29-There is yet a danger of water shortage. The pow.er plants are closed for re pairs but two special pumps have been installed to pump water from the river into the city. The canal banks is broken in IS places. Nine railroad ' trestles are destroyed be tween Elberton, Ga and this city. The waters are receding here today but are rising at points below here. Kingsville is under nine feet of water. LIE ATHLETES GET IUIIG ECU Olympic Heroes in Big New York Parade CHEERS FOR HAYES Great Marathon Race Winner Is Given the Greatest Ovation RECEPTION "AFTER PARADE Sturdy Athletes Attend Meet Given to Raise Funds to Build Monument in Memory of Firemen, Western Men Break Records. '!. NEW YORK, Aug. 29,-Encircled by cheering thousands and occupying a position of honor in the parade of 15,000 men and boys, SO Olympic heroes the sturdy young athletes ' who represented American in the Olmpic'games at London were given a great ovation today. Every inch of sidewalk from Forty-sixth street and Sixth avenue where the parade start ed to the city hall where ended, was crowded with admiring specta tors who cheered the athletes lustily. "Little Johnny" Hayes, the winner of the Marathon, was given the greatest ovation. It took more than an nour for the parade to pass before the grandstand. Acting Mayor McGow an delivered a speech and presented each athlete with a handsome gold medal and three athletes, John J. Hayes, the Marathon winner; J. C. Carpenter of Cornell, and W. C. Rob bins, of Yale, who were the first and second in the 400 metre race which were eventually awarded to Lieuten ant Halsewel, the English runner by an alleged foul, got loving cups. The Mayor then extended the freedom of the city. The parade was followed by a reception and later a number of the athletes went to the city park to at ted the firemen's memorial meet held to raise a fund to build x monument in memory of Fire Chief Kruger and the men of his department who lost their lives in the discharge of their duties. Forest Smithson of Portland, Oregon, won the hundred metre race and equalling the world's record; Ralph Rose, of California, threw the 12-pound shot 57 feet 81 inches, break ing the world's record.. TRIAL POSTPONED. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29.-In Judge La w'lor's department of the superior court, the trial of Patrick Calhoun, president of the United Railroads, on an indiefment charging him with bribery of former .super visors, was postponed on account of the trial of Abraham Ruef which is progressing in that court. The trial will commence early next week.