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
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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
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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.