33rd YEAR. NO. 204
GERMANY'S- AniTUDE TOW
FRANCE ANGERS FREHCNil
Kaiser in Regard to Mo
rocco Provokes Trouble
HAY PRODUCE CRISIS
Recognition of Usurper Mulal
Comes Like a Bombshell
to All France
BRUTAL CHANGE OF FRONT
X tht Way Germany'! Actiont U
Considered by Frenchman, and the
Preat Consider the Incident "Pro
vocative" Powera Mar Step In.
"
PARIS, Sept. 2. -The action of
Germany in breaking up the concert
of the power with regard to Morocco
by notifying the signatories to the
Algeciras Act that she considered the
actual situation demanded the imme
diate recognition of Mulai Hafid, the
usurping Sultan of Mocco, hai fallen
like a bombshell in Park A felling
approaching consternation is mani
fested in official circles. The notifica
tion, which was made verbally, is not
accompanied by any explanation of
Germany's "brutal change of front,"
as it i termed here, and in govern
ment circles the action of Germany
and the dispatch to Fci of Dr. Vasscl,
the German consul at Tangier, can no
longer be dissociated.
France can see In Germany's action
only her intention to disregard the
Alaeciras Act and seek a soecial nosi-
tion in Morocco for he'rself. The con-
sequences both from an international
and French standDoint are exoected
to be deplorable. ,
In answer to Germany's call for
rccotrnit on of Mula Hafid before h
has entered into engagements with
Europe, fanatical Arabs who had been
gathering on the Algerian ' frontier
attacked yesterday the French oost at
Boni'dib.
The Associated Press is in a posi
tion to present the French official
view of the situation:
Germany's notification came as a
complete surprise to France and
Spaing who are, engaged in elaborat
lug a program of the demands to be
presented to Mulal Hand for the safe- plank .being adopted.
guarding of the common interests of United States Senator Weldon B.
Europe and American in Morocco. , Heyburn, of Shoshone. :
These demands are to be submitted , Congressman Thomas R, Hamer,
to the signatories of the Algeciras; of .Fremont.;. - " j
Act as 'soonUs'Uhey Xrt presented, ' Governor James H"T Brady of Ban
and Germany was so notified several nock,
days ago. Germany took no exeep- Lieutenant-Governor L. H. Sweet
tion to this course, and we presumed zcr; of Cassia,
that she was entirely satisfied until Secretary of State Robert Lans
euddenly there came this crash out of don, of Washington,
a blue sky. , ' . . Auditor S. Taylor, of Bonner.
There" was no longer any question Treasurer C. .A,.' Hastings Nez
"MOTHER OF FOREST"
IS ONLY DAMAGED
Fire in Calaveras Forest
Be Checked
STOCKTON, Cal., Sept, 2. -The
fire in the Calaveras forest near the
big .Jtrces has gone northward away
irom tna lamous grove jinu is now
running southerly toward the Stanislaus-river,
The fire fighters believe
4 l-ii f win ,iPf.lr if Kfm'A nmrniniT
'The? only big tree attacked was
ARDS
of upholding Abd EI Aziz, Both
France and Spain recognized that he
had disappeared definitely from the
horizon. What we proposed to do
was to force Mulai Hafid to ratify
the engagements of his brother, Abd
El Ariz, towards recognizing him.
Now Germany cornea forward with a
proposition to recognize Mulai Hafid
before he has given any guarantee. It
amounts to undoing the work of the
Algeciras conference and" reverting to
the status quo ante. The powers must
decide between the position of Ger
many'and that of France; the position
of France we consider to be most
loyal to the spirit and letter of the
Algeciras Act
The French press is unanimous in
considering Germany's action provo
cative, and possibly productive of an
actual crisis. '
DEFEAT STATE TICKET
AT ELEVENTH HOUR
REPUBLICANS UPSET ALL CAL
CULATIONS AT THE IDAHO
STATE CONVENTION.
T. HAMER FOR CONGRESSMAN
Congressman Frtfnch Who Did Not
Have a Candidate at Midnight, is
Defeated in Short Order When
Hamer is Nominated.
NOISE, Sept. 2.-Thc republican
,a,c convention gave Idaho its big
cst I'"ure prize when at the 1 1th
hour it defeated the state ticket
agtigatcd on by him, Brady the. nomi
nce for governor. The opposition led
by George W. Thompson of Nez
Perce county put through a deal that
! N calculations and defeated
the one man who was regarded as
having clear sailing. Congressman
French did not have a candidate
against him until midnight last night.
Before daylight the nomination had
been made to defeat him, and it did
so today. After Hamer had been
nominated the opposition to the in
surgent slate practically quit.
There was a warm fight, strongly
backed by Senator Heyburn, against
the direct primary plank and it was
defeated, 169 to 134. The local option
Changes Course and Hay
in Short Time
"Mother of. The Forest," standing at
the north end of the grove and that
monster according to information at
hand, was not much 'damaged. The
tree has been dead for many years,
but has long branches which caught
fire.' An area of four miles has been,
burned over. : : y
ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1003
POISOfi NOT THE CAUSE
fj dioh death:
Woman Who Was Found Dead,
Not Poisoned, Says Chemist
OAKLAND, Cal., Sept. 2.-No
trace of poison was discovered in the
digestive organs of Mrs. Daniel Don
ahue of Emeryville, whose dead body
was four.d buried in a swamp under
a furniture factory last Sunday. The
chemist says the absence of poison
does not preclude the possibility that
the woman met death at the hands
of a poisoner, but is firmly convinced
that at no time was there poison in
her system.
I'crcc.
Mine Inspector F. C. Moore, Sho
shone. Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion S. Belle Chamberlain,
Presidential Electors Edgar Wil
son of Ada, John Lamb of Awyhee,
A. A. Crane of Kootenai,
DEATH BY LIVE WIRE.
WALLACE, Idaho, Sept. 2,-Thos.
Woodward, chief electrician of the
Nbrthwest Light & Power Company
was electrocuted today. He ascended
a power pole to inspect a wire, lost
his baalnce and fell across a wire
carrying 2300 volts. Death was in
stantaneous. He was a prominent
mason, and was married only three
weeks,
FORAKER SURPRISES JUDGE HFT
AT 6. A. I CELEBRATIONS
Tremendous Cheer Greets Leader As He Joins the
Candidate During Parade
NO ILL FEELING BETWEEN THE TWO MEN
Foraker Takes Occasion During
He and Taft Have Ever
Best of
TOLEDO, O., Sept. 2. That Taft
and Foraker are politically together is
not only the public admission of both
gentlemen, but also the political sen-) veterans received his attention. Af
sation of Ohio. Foraker is the advo-( ter expressing his patriotic sentiment
cated candidate for United Spates toward them he brought Senator
senator to succeed himself and his i Foraker into the discussion. "Your
services in the national campaign have
been sought by Hitchcock and For-
aker has promised to take the stump,
Judge Taft did not have the least in-j
timation when he left Middle Bass
Island this morning, that he was to
meet Foraker, but the city of Topeka
seemed to know all about it and when
few minutes after Taft had taken
his position on the stand to review
the G. A, R. parade, a carriage which
headed the procession stopped in
front of the stand and discharged its
passengers amid a tremendous shout
as the thousands in sight of the re
viewing stand caught sight of the
senior senator and coIIeaEiie. Sena
tor Dick, Governor Harris and Mayor
Whitlock also alighting from the car
riage. Foraker was ' the last of the
little, party' to reach Taft's side. They
greeted each other cordially amid a
mighty shout of the crowd and then
the roar of cheers. The two sat to
gether, and conversed earnestly for
more than an hour, incidentally to
gether receiving the plaudits of the
marching veterans. ' Foraker left to
keep a business engagement, Taft re-
" s , t
in the afternoon Taft and Foraker
again met at the Lycem theatre where
there was to be some speech-making,
The crowd expressed their approval
T COI'FIHE
I.lllL0VNIit
Judge Wolverton Gives Decision
Dropping the Penalty
PORTLAND, Sept 2,-Contending
that the United States district attor
ney was not warranted by law in at
tempting to collect f 1000 from the
estate of the late United States Sena
tor John H. Mitchell, United States
Judge Charles E. Wolverton this
morning handed down a decision
which vacates the fine imposed on the
Senator, July 25, 1905. This action
on the part of the court disposes of
all matters in which Senator Mitchell
was personally concerned and will
jiermit the settling of the estate,
which has been prevented pending the
decision of the federal judge. '
The late Senator Mitchell was sen
tenced to a term, ofr imprisonment and
,the payment of a fine of $1000 as a re
sult of his indictment and conviction
in the Oregon land fraud cases. The
special count cm which he was found
guilty was in accepting fees from S.
A. D. Puter, leader of the land fraud
ring in Oregon, for practicing before
the departments. It was proved that
Puter gave Mitchell two $1000 bills
to expedite the patents on certain
lands which were being acquired
fraudulently.
After the sentence, an appeal was
taken to the supreme court by the
aged Senator, but before the appeal
was decided, Senator Mitchell died.
His attorneys then procured an order
Speech to Deny the Report That
Been Anything But the
Friends
of the presence of the two and a great
burst of cheers rang out. Taft's speech
was a witty one and of course the
chairman has said that I have filled
the office for 20 years almost without
a reward. As he did so, Senator
Foraker whispered to me that there
are some who would accent the honor
on the same terms.
"It is a pleasure for me to be here
with Senator Foraker, because when
the Governor of Ohio he gave me my,
really first chance, and took a good
deal of risk putting a man of 29 on
the bench of the superior court of
Cincinnati. We are about to enter,
or rather we have entered a great
oratorical campaign. It is a pleasure
j to think we are going to stand in the
campaign shoulder to shoulder, with
the full strength of the republican
party."
Taft . then went into political argu
ment sayihg the real issue is whether
the voters of the country will give
their endorsement to the Roosevelt
policies and deeds of the republican
party or turn to the democratic party
vith its untried promises. " '.. '
Foraker was introduced a little
later with cordiality. He began re-
, L .l' '
marks by scoring the press to the
ex
tent of saying that there came near
being a tragedy in his absence, from
i the meeting, during the first 10 min-
(Continued on page 8)
CA10
CHllt! HITCHCOCK TO VISIT
TAFI A! HOLE BASS
from the court by which the sentence
of imprisonment was vacated. The
United States district attorney, how
ever, sought to collect the fine from
the estate.
BASEBALL GAMES.
National League.
Brooklyn 2, Philadelphia 3.
Cincinnati 2, Pittsburg 8.
Chicago 8, St. Louis 0.
American League.
Philadelphia 5. New York. 2.
Washington 3, Boston 2.
Detroit 5, Cleveland 3.
Chicago 4, St. Louis 1.
Pacific Coast League.
Portland 1, Los Angeles 8.
Oakland 1, San Francisco 0.
Northwest League.
Seattle 0, Spokane 3.
Tacoma 3, Butte 0.
B
SLIGHTLY LOWERED
VERMONT RESULTS ESTIMAT
ED TO SHOW A SIX PER
CENT DECREASE.
SURPRISING THE LEADERS
The Decrease Was Unlooked For
Owing to the Many Local Contests
and the Heavy Voting at the
Poiu. . .
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, yt,
Sept. 2. Complete returns from yes
terday's elections in Vermont show
the following: '
George H. Prouty, Republican, for
Governor, 45,281 ; James E. Burke,
Democrat, 15953; Quimby S. Backus,
Independence League, 1252; Eugene
M. Campbell Prohibitionist, 826; J.
H. Dunbar, Socialist, 479. ;
.The total vote of . all parties
66,747, and Prouty's plurality
Burke was 29,376.
Although comparisons of this year's
vote with the vote of four years ago
cannot.be made until the complete
vote is received, it is estimated the
falling off of the republican vote was
somewhat in excess of the reduction
of the Democratic vote.
The decrease in the Republican vote
amounted to 6 per cent, and in the
Democratic vote to 3 per cent. The
decrease was surprising, in view of
the numerous local contests, at which
the voting was quite heavy. Political
leaders were inclined to look upon
the retupns today as indicating that
the voters were somewhat apathetic
in regard to the national issues, but
not to a marked degree.
The incoming Legislature will have
at least one Democratic Senator,
about 30 Democratic Representatives,
REP
LICAII
PLURALITY
MYSTERY SURROUNDS
SURGEON'S DEATH
Dr. Frederick T. Ruslin, a
r While Entering His
OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 2.-Dr. Fred
erick T. Ruslin, one of the most fa
mous surgeons in the West, was shot
and killed as he was on the point of
entering him home this morning at 3
o'clock. There is not a single clue to
the murder. 1 ' - " :
Dr. Ruslin had remained out late
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Conference Expected to
Remove Friction
SPEAKERS FOR OHIO
Committee Promises to Supply
Whatever Speakers Are Nec
essary in That State
TO GET VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN
Leaders Decide That Indiana and
Ohio Must Both be Worked to the
Limit ajid Will Receive Special
Attention.
CHICAGO. Sept. 2.-
' Hitchcock,
both
the republican national
man today decided to
Indiana and Ohio on his return trip
to Xew York. He will leave for In
dianapolis tomorrow night and confer
with Vice-President Fairbanks Fri
day. He will leave the same evening
for Toledo, Ohio, and will visit Taft
at Middle Bass Island Saturday. The
Indiana situation is giving officials
of the nation committee some concern
that the state must receive special at
tention. ;
Fairbanks intends to make a large
number of speeches under the auspi
ces of the Republican national com
mittee. When Hitchcock meets Taft
Saturday it is understood that all
cause of friction over the manage
ment of the campaign in Ohio will be
given its fufl quota of funds to de
fray the election campaign expenses.
and at least six members of the In
dependence 'League in ihe lower
V'.:' house. Four years ago the House
was stood 205 Republicans and 34 Demo
over crats, so that the Republican majority
of the coming year will be practically
unchanged, and will insure the elec
tion of a Republican successor to the
late Senator Redfield Proctor, prob
ably in the person of his son, Gover
nor F. D. Proctor.
The election of a Democratic mem
ber of the State Senate gives the
party a representation in that branch
of the Legislature for the first time
in several years.
ALARMING CONDITIONS. .
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 2-Accord-ing
to a report received in this city
alarming conditions prevail through
out the republic of Honduras which
explains the dispatch of the gunboat
Bravo to the port of Puerto Cortes
by the Mexicon government at the
suggestion of the United States.
Famous Doctor, Is Shot
Home at Omaha
for the election returns. His wife was
awakened by a pistol shot and rushed
downstairs and out on the porch.
Dr, Ruslin was sitting in a chair.'
"I have been shot," he said, and then
lapsed into unconsciousness. He died
half an hour later without regaining
consciousness. A single pistol ball
had entered the abdomen.