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-
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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
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' 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.