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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1908)
50VCRSTHC MORNING fICLO ON THC LOWCR COLUMBIA PUBLISHES rULl Af OCIAHO PUIS REPORT 33rd YEAR. NO. 208 ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, bui 1908 PRICE FIVE CENTS iOTHER HI PLANNED TO SUICIDE IF BRYAN A PIIEIIT FIGURE AT CHICAGO LABOR PARADE ABIT HELD FOR MURDER FIRES ARE STILL RAGING- OVER AN ENORMOUS TERRITORY ' Al SPEED Trains Pick Up Settlers Who Are Fleeing THOUSANDSHOMELESS Many Have Lost Everything They Possessed Except the Clothes They Wore MARTIAL LAW AT CHISHOLM It li Estimated That Northern Mln- nesota and Northwestern WUcon ain Have Suffered Lota of Nearly $4,000,000 In the Recent Fires. DULUTH, Minn., Sept. 7-The for eat firei which are menacing the town of Wrenihall, 35 utiles west or Du luth, are atill burning. John Lowry, of Duluth, who return ed last night from Wrenshall, itatei that the flames are raging Carlton and Wrcnhall, ami that many set tlers have been turned out. The Great Northern trains yester day stopped several times between stations to pick up settlers who have been left homeless. The village of Holman, near Grand Rapid, in also reported to be threat ened. Between Hibbingi and Coldrain small Tires are burning over an area of nearly 550 miles. Chisholm, with a population of nearly 4(KX), which was destroyed, will be rebuilt at once. Chisholm presents a scene of ruin and desola tion. At least 4000 persons are homeless. The city is under military rule, and Governor Johnson is taking steps looking to the relief of the vic tims of the disaster. Relief trains are running into the burned district to day, bringing needed supplies. It is estimated that Northern Min nesota and Northwestern Wisconsin have suffered a loss of nearly $4,000, 000 from the recent forest fires. Of this amount, Chisholm's loss fs $1, 750,000. llibbing cared for at leat 100 refu gees from Chisholm last night, and with tents by the carload arriving, in KETCHEL ALL BUT KILLED BY PAPKE Illinois Scrapper Wins Distinction as Middleweight Champion in the Bloodiest Fight on Record VERNON ARENA, Los Angeles, Sept. 7. Stanley Ketchel of Michi gan, the middleweight champion of the world, was knocked out in the twelfth round at Jeffries' fighting pa vilion this afternoon by Billy Papke, of .Illinois, who by virtue of his vic tory, becomes the middleweight cham pion of the world. It was a case of an Illinois thunderbolt against . a Michigan cyclone and the thunder bolt wofi." Ketchel had the previous decision over Papke in a ten round fight, Ketchel was a two to one fa vorite today. Today's fight was one of the blood iest in the history of the American ring,, The fight was practically over after one minute and twenty seconds of fighting, of the first round. From that time it was merely a question, a short time shelter will be establish ed for all. Many merchants and other well-to-do citizens lost all they possessed ex cept the clothes they wore. While many are embarrassed, it Is only temporary, as insurance money will soon be paid. r QUIET IN 'FRISCO. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7.With the city singularly free from indus trial strife of any character, the ob servance of Labor Day this year promises to be at quiet at it it no table. Two Immense parades, one rep resenting the Building Trades Coun cil, the other the Labor Council, will state from opposite directions and pass midway along Market street. Michael Casey will head .the Labor Council and P. H. McCarthy will ride in the van of the Building Trades-Council. ROADS WILL BE OPENED FIRST GOOD HIGHWAY MEET ING LARGELY ATTENDED MUCH ENTHUSIASM. WILL MAKE FINE DRIVING Tillamook and Clatsop County Take the Matter up at Recent Meeting s and Arrange to Let Bida For Three Miles of Road. TILLAMOOK, Or., Sept. 7.-The first good roads meeting held in this county proved a great success and was largely attended. V , There is a strong sentiment in favoi of making good wagon road from the Yamhill county line at Dolph to Clatsop county, provided the other counties will co-operate. The county court has already taken up the mat ter of opening up the roads between Tillamook and Clatsop counties,, and at its present meeting has a bid to construct three miles of road around Necarncy Mountain, which overlooks the Pacific Ocean, and it is most likely that they will order this road constructed. The road from this city to Nchalem is in fine shape, and as soon as the roads' between Tillamook of how long Ketchel could Ust. Papke tore into Ketchel with suoli fury that the undefeated champion was simply lifted off his feet four times in the first round, After the first knock down Ketchel never really recovered himself. He bled from a rain of ter rible blows in the face, but tor three rounds he managed to hold his own. His right eye was useless to him after the first round and before the finish his left eye was all but closed. The last three round , he staggered around the ring dizzy, and practically blind. All through the fight Ketchel bled so that the blood literally dripped from his open wounds onto Papke's clean body, and to the floor of the ring and the defeated man presented a hor rible sight. Papke. finished almost as strong as when he entered the ring with hardly a mark on him. Lester Webb Instantly Killed and Charles Balke Injured LOS ASGELES, Sept. 7.-Lester Webb was instantly killed and Chat. Balke, aged 17, suffered a fractured collarbone and flight concussion of the brain, and a battered face this afternoon at Agricultural Park when the motor cycle, ridden by Balke at a speed said to have been 40 miles an hour, ran into Webb in front of the grandstand. and Clatsop are complete it will make one of the most beautiful driveways in the State of Oregon, and will have enormous summer travel The dispo sition of the county court is to put the road from Dolph in good shape at toon as possible, but as there are several bad piece of road, especially through what was known as the In dian reservation in Yamhill county, it is necessary to get the co-operationof other counties before a good automo bile road from Portland, thru Wash ington, Yamhill and part of Polk, by way of McMinnville and Sheridan, in to Tillamook county, and thence to Astoria, can be made. KERN TO SPEAK IN OREGON. PORTLAND, Sept. 7.Kern, the democratic candidate for vice-president is expected to make (wo ad dresses in Oregon. The Democratic state central committee expects Kern to" arrive in Oregon in time to speak in the district fair in Pendleton, Sep tember 30th and deliver an aSdress in Portland, October 1st. Definite as surances received by Congressman T. AY HAVE BEEN ' I PRESIDENT Secret Service Men Catch Suspicious Character Armed Near Roosevelt's House SAYS HE WANTED TO When Stopped by Secret Service With His Name and the Word "Officer" Is Being Held for Carrying Concealed Weapons OYSTER BAY, Setp. 7.-A crank; with an antiquated bulldog revolver was caught near Roosevelt's house to day by secret service guards. The man described himself as John Coughlan, a detective and when stop ped by a secret service man he pre sented a card upon which was in scribed his name and the word "Offi cer." He said he had come to ask the president for an order for 10,000 troops to catch "Yeggman" who had been terrorizing Boston. The secret service men stopped him .and asked his business. They tried to put him off that the president was busy and was not seeing visitors. Coughlin heitated a moment and then slid his j hand toward his back pocket. Secret: Service Agent Adams grabbed him. ' Coughlin is a slight man and he made j little resistance. In his back pocket a j revolver was found. He was taken I in an automobile to the town hall un-1 der a charge of carrying concealed weapons,, and committed to jail at Mineola. He will be examined for insanity. Coughlin admitted that he had been confined to an asylum for three years.'!-The president was not informed of the occurrence this even ing. A rumor started that a snot was fired at the president while riding with his cousin W. Emlen Roosevelt Lee Johnson Purchased Poison for Defense Against Crime SEATTLE, Sept 7.-Cyanide of potassium was purchased by Lee Johnston now on his way to Nome, to defend himself against the charge of murdering- Belle Gillchrist, his un lawful wife, six days before the crime is alleged to have occurred. Follow ing is an entry in Johnston's hand writing discovered penciled on the fly-leaf of a Bible by the first Mrs. Johnston, while she was searching her husband's effects: "Bought cyanide of potassium, Oc tober 25, 1903." The date of Miss Gilchrist's death had been established as October 3, 1905, and parts of the body of the woman was unearthed on Saturday afternoon by searcher 'sent out from Nome to the Johnston cabin. Special United States Deputy Marshal Joe Warren, who is working on the case, claims also to have evi dence to prove the woman came to her death October 31, 1905. While searching amorjg her husband's pa pers today at her home at 1902 Fourth avenue, Mrs. Johnston dis covered an old will, drawn up by Belle Gillchrist in which property in Maxwell, Ont, in Manitoba, and in Butte, Mont., is bequeathed -to the testator's brother and twjo sisters. A. Bell of California will deliver three addresses to the voters of Oregon. He will sepak in Medford September 21st;,Eugcne the following night; Sa TenTon'trlc "night- ofv September 23rd. If it is possible he mak speak In Ash land. PLOT TO HARM SEE HIM ON BUSINESS Men He Shows Card Inscribed along Cove road on Saturday. It is denied by those in a position to know. James Sloan,' Jr., chief of the president's guard . of secret service men emphatically denied the story of an ambush. ? GRABBED THE BALLOON. Young Prune Rancher Goes Up In ' V The Air. SAN JOSE, Cal., Sept. 7.-Accept-ing a dare from a young woman, Fred JBiaggi, the 18-year-old son of a prune rancher, yesterday made a daring and unheralded aeronautic scent that thrilled hundreds of spectators. Run ning forward just as W. L. Warring, the professional parachute artist, cut loose from the ground Biaggi sprang into the cordage at the mouth of the bag and was carried upward to a height estimated at 6000 feet. War ring cut loose with his parachute at an elevation of 2500 feet, and with Biaggi, as its solitary passenger the balloon' drifted over the hills of the coast range until it was almost lost to view. His weight prevented the sudden escape of the gas, ant after two hours of suspense for his friends he returned to town, having landed without injury. '" J BASEBALL GAMES. Pacific Coast League. San Francisco 8, 1, Oakland 10, 2. Portland 5, Los Angeles 2. Northwest League. Seattle 0, 0, Spokane 1,5. Tacoma 2, Butte 3. LABOR DAY ADDRESS. MARION, Ills, Sept. 7. -John Mitchell, former president of the United Mine Workers of America, ad dressed 20,000 people at their Labor Day celebration here today. Mr. Mitchell spoke of the rapid advance of the laboring classes and denounced the idea of the rich growing richer, and the poor growing poorer. He said he has abandoned all aspirations for political office. He spoke highly of the judiciary, but criticized its course in some of the injunction cases. KILLS TilAfl WHO GAVE HI THRESHING SHEEPHERDER WALKS OVER IS MILES TO PROCURE GUN TO SLAY HIS ENEMY. BOASTED HE MEANT DEATH First Quarrel Started When Sheep Band Get Mixed First Murder of the Season in Harney County Sheep Country. BURNS, Or, Sept. 7.-The first murder on the Harney county border for two years took place on Stein Mountain, in a sheep camp, when John C. Midland shot and killed a Spaniard named Lorenzo P. Ramos, after a quarrel in which the Spaniard whipped Midland. The original dis pute transpired a few days before the killing over the mixing of ihe two bands of sheep and culminated in a fist fight. 1 ' Midland went IS miles to a store in Diamond Valley, where he bought a Colts revolver. While there he re marked that he was geting ready to kill Ramos if he got into any more trouble with" him. On returning to Camp . he met Ramos and shot him three times. The last shot took ef- (Continued on page 8.) ATTEL AND MORAN FIGHT TO A DRAW Both Boxers Claim They Should Have Received De cision, But Spectators Agree With Decision COLMA ARENA, San Francisco, Sept 7. Abe Attel, the 'champion featherweight of America, and Owen Moran, England's premier boxes of that division fought a draw battle at the Colma open air arena this after noon in the presence of 6000 specta tors. The battle lasted 23 rounds at the conclusion of which the referee, Jack Welch, unhesitatingly grasped both lads by the hand and signifying a draw. . The decision pleased the crowd and there was great cheering for both fighters as they left the ring. The fight on the whole was rather tame; this was off-set by the cleverness ex hibited by both fighters. The fight was very even and characterized by Attel's cleverness of blocking and Cheers of Crowd Please the Democrat HE HITS TAFT HARD Likens Republican Plank to a Lumber Pile, Calling It "a Mere Ragged Knot Hole" WILL USE MOVING PICTURES Every Move of the Candidate it Caught by the Motion Camera For Reproduction In Connection With Phonograph Speeches. , - CHICAGO, Sept 7.-Organized la'-' bor today paid tribute to William" J. Bryan. "Although it was Labor Day it soon became manifest that the workers had surrendered their privi lege and made it Bryan Day. Within an hour after his arrive! in the city the democratic candidate for presi dent, standing on the baloney of the Auditorium Hotel received the plau dits of thousands of toilers as they marched by in a monster parade. The air was rent with cheers and enthu siam was unbounded. Not infrequent ly the marchers halter before the can didate's seat, doffed their caps, with three cheers, "For our next presi dent." The pleasure which ovation ( afforded Bryan was undisguised. So insistent for a 'speech was the crowd in front of the hotel, that Bryan yield ed. In the course of his brief address he paid tribute to labor and said that he believed in the observance of La bor Day because he thought "We all ought to strive to assist in dignifying it in every possible way the honest toil upon which our nation properly rests." - But this was only one feature of ( the visit of the democratic candidate. Bryan was conducted to Forest Park, where a multitude awaited him. He was given a great ovation. He deliv ered a speech on the abuse of the in junction in the labor disputes and lat er practically duplicated his speech at Brand's Park where the Electrical Workers were holding forth. Every (Continued on page 8) ' creneral defense and Mnran' irr.i. j ...... .t8.v- siveness. The consensus of opinion is that Attel has gone back considerably and lacks the speed that eoverner his 'previous battles. After the fight Mo jran told the newspapermen that he broke his right hand in the second round, but though he won, "By a mile." The Associated Press repre sentative examined the alleged broken hand in Moran's dressing room, but beyond the fact that his arm was badly swollen around the thumb it was impossible to verify his claim of a broken arm. , Attel also claimed he should have had the decision and is willing to fight again any distance inside of 25 rounds. Attel's middle finger on the right hand was disjointed during the fight.
