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70VCRSTHC MORNING FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA PUBLISHES fULL AfftOCIAriD PRESS REPORT 33rd YEAR. NO. 210 ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEP' EB 10, 1908 PRICE FIVE CENTS CANS GOES OUT III M BRYAN'S CAMPAIGN IN EAST STARTED WILL WW FOR inn or OF KEIIY SEEPS ASSURED Hi WICKED FIGIII Nelson Clinches Light weight Championship BATTLER RUSHES HIM Younger Man From the Start Forces Gans, Soon Ex hausting Him LAST FIGHT FOR "OLD JOE" Defeated Man Will Never Again En ter Pugilistic King Admite Nelson is Beit Man Battler Vow Never to Fight a Colored Man Again. COLMA ARENA, San Francisco, Sept. 9. Battling Nelson clinched hi claimed to the liuhtwcight pugilistic championship by defeating Joe Cans for the second time this afternoon. The fight ended in the twenty-first round when Cans was beaten down tiy a succession of blows, from the St cad J' conqueror and failed to get upon his feet at the count of ten. The veteran colored fighter was se verely, punished but the champion, too, has marks of the battle. , From the first clang of the gong, Nelson forced the fighting, never giving ground and gradually battered down his older and less vigorous opponent. In the final round Nelson rained in his right and left with smashes to the jaw and body and soon beat him into i helpless state. Cans sank to the floor and the referee began to count. Mechanically the defeated man watched Referee Smith wave his hands, apparently too far gone to hear' him count. The count of ten was tolled off and it was then that Cans, ashen gray, his face terribly cut with eyes glassy, sought to rise. The fight was the most spectacular and at no time did it appear as if Cans had a chance to win. Time and P. N. LILIENTHAL KILLED IN WRECK President of Anglo-California Bank at San Fran cisco Meets Death in Auto Accident SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9.-Phil-ip N. Lilienthal, president Anglo California Bank of this city and one the most prominent financiers of the Pacific Coast died her this evening from injuries received when the auto mobile in which he was returning from the Gans-Nelson fight collided with a horse and cart. The banker who is an extremely heavy man eith er jumped from the machine when he saw the collision coming or was hurled to the ground by the sudden stopping of the 'car, striking on his head and shoulders. One side of his head was found to be terribly crush ed when he was picked up and sev eral ribs had been fractured by the force of his fall. He died in the car on the way to the hospital. Lilienthal attended the fight in company with Gregory Wilenkin, financal agent at Washngton of the Russan govern ment during the Russo-Japanese war and Tfnace Warschamansky of St, Petersburg. On the return from the arena while the car was making good speed, the chauffeur decided to turn down a cross' street leading directly again he would shoot wicked punches to the Battler's face, but he latter never, for an Instant wavered. Rcf erce Smith said after the fight that Gans was all in after the ninth round In the twenty-first round, after both Smith and the timekeeper count ed ten, therefore making Nelson the winner, Smith added that he did not believe that Gans knew that lie was counted out, but it did not make any difference as Nelson had Gans com plctely at his mercy. In the dressing room Cans, with one eye closed and the other partialy so, nose and lips badly lacerated and swollen, mumbled oqt a statement as follows: "I made one fight too many; Nel son is a tough boy and beat me fair (Continued on page 8.) FIRE AT STROYS IB Bt mi HL WILSON PLANT COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED BY EARLY MORNING BLAZE. YEARS OF HARD LABOR LOST After Many Years' Building up of the Wilson. Business, the Flames Set Owner Back to Where He Had Started. RAINIER, Or., Sept. 9. Years of hard work by C. C, Wilson, princi pal proprietor of the C. C. Wilson Lumber Company, were lost early this morning when the sawmill of this company, 250,000 feet of lumber, five cars of lumber in the dry kiln, $50110 worth of machinery put in this summer, and other equipment were destroyed. Mr. Wilson's loss is $47, 000. His insurance is $13,000, which will meet his outstanding debts, leav ing him where he was when he began to build up the big plant years ago. A sailor working at the plant to the heart of the city, and as he 'swung the car around a corner, a ! horse attached to a heavy sulkey (coming from the opposite direction I became frightened and pranced in front of the car. The chauffeur 'brought the machine " to a sudden stop, but not quickly enough to avoid the collision and the horse was piled on the fenders of the automobile, the chauffeur, Willenkin and War schansky jumped out at once. He helped the driver of the sulkey I to get the sulky righted and the ani ,mal on its feet. It was after this had 'been done that Lilienthal's absence was noted. On looking around his .friends discovered the banker lying in J the road some 15 feet from the ma (chie unconscious and with his face (and head covered with blood. The injured man was hastily placed in the car and all speed made to the nearest J'hespital, but Lilienthal expired dur ing the journey, , Examination of the body, disclosed Lilienthal's death was due to punc ture of the left lung by a shaft of the sulky which also struck his heart. Democrat Leaves Peoria Amid Demonstrations PEORIA, Sept. 9. Bryan was the man of the hour today in Peoria and from the moment he set foot in the city until tonight when he departed for Evansville, He was accorded by a series of demonstrations. When the train pulled out of here tonight the actual invasion of the east by demo cratic candidate was begun. From this point until September 29 when the trip is concluded at Lincoln, Bryan will travel in a private car. At Esopun, New York, Mr. Bryan will be entertained by Judge Alton B. Parker. wakened at 3 a. m. and built a fire in the bunkliouse. At 4 a, m. he wak ened again, but saw no sign of fire. At 4:30 the blaze was discovered, hav ing started in the planer shed. Two men were asleep in the fireroom and no night watchman was in evidence. Flag Aldrcd, the watchman, took his blankets and left during the confla gration. So fierce was the blaze that cinders were found in another saw mill yard two and a half miles dist ant. It was so quick that a nearby tenement house was scorched before the inmates were aroused. Six weeks more would have finish ed work at this plant, when Mr. Wilson proposed to move the mill. to Rainier and cut during: the Winter FOR THIS Hon. Harrison Allen and P Meet With Charter Committee UPON RAILWAY'S INTEREST IN THE SEAWALL Draft of Amendment Suggested Mr. Allen Simple, Expedient and Pertinent Plans Citizens and Taxpayers Awaking and Preparing to Take a Hand In accordance with the under standing recently had as between the Astoria Charter Committee and ' Messrs. John McGuire, superintend-; cut of the A. & C. Railway and Hon.i Harrison Allen, the" attorney for that company, in regard to a statement of the company's attitude toward the present plans for a seawall here, those two gentlemen arrived in the city yesterday on the noon express from Portland, and will confer with the committee at its session tonight. Both representatives of the railway are prepared to signify what, and all. phc company stands for in this rela tion at present, and will press the acceptance of its views for the com mon ffood of all concerned and not alone to cover the interest it holds In the great project. A reporter for the Morning As- torian had an opportunity yesterday to get reasonably close to the rail way estimate of the situation, in the course of an interview with Mr. Al lenduring which he expressed him self very frankly, as follows: "It is not the policyvof the A. & C. Company to oppose, any public im provement, which is practicable, per manent and of general benefit to the City of Astoria, We believe, how ever, that before undertaking a work of such importance and magnitude, a irehminary investigation should be ; I made by experienced engineers to as certain and recommend a plan of im provement which shall include a sub stantial seawall, or outer bulkhead, Coroner's Jury Recommend Ac tion After Returning Verdict OMAJIA, Sept. 9."Dr. Frederivk Rustin came to his death by a pistol hot fired by some person unknown," is the verdict of the coroner's jury. The jury recommended that Charles E, Davis, who was yesterday impli cated by Mrs. Abbie C. Rice be held and that his conduct on the night of September 1st be thoroughly investi gated. Davis was taken into custody and after arraignment released on bond signed by his brothers. Fred crick Davis, a brother of the arrested man, states that Charles has been afflicted with spells of insanity for years. Mrs. Rice is also being de tained. months. Three previous fires have been discovered this summer, but all were put out without any damage. There was no fire in the slab pit this morning and no wind, so the original of the blaze is hardly understood. Many orders are left unfilled. CHILDREN INCINERATED. ST. PAUL Minn.. Sept. 9.-While the parents were away from home the residence of J. C. Burdette, near Brighton, 15 miles northwest of here, burned last night and five small chil dren, ranging from five to ten years old, met death by suffocation. T CONFERENCE PUIIID EVEIIG Supt. John McGuire to by the CompanyInterview With designate its location, estimate its cost, and also the manner and cost of tilling the lands and streets within the same. "Plans and specifications for the whole work should be submitted, specifying grades, height of fills, recommend a new system of sewers which will be necessary to the preser vation Of the health of the city, and all other details which must be con sidered. "If this investigation shall disclose the feasibility and permanency of the work, and that the cost will not be prohibitive, the matter of the adop tion of the plan and the construction of the work can be submitted to the people at the next general city elec tion, by an initiative measure which will be thoroughly understood "To that end Mr. McGuire and I, as the representatives of the A. & C, will attend the meeting of the Char ter Commission tomorrow evening and present to them a bill embody ing these suggestions. If an amend ment to the charter of this character, shall be adopted, it will be the means of giving to the people of Astoria the information which they ought to have before deciding this important question." . Following is the full text of the charter amendment which , will be offered in this behalf, by Messrs. Allen and McGuire, at the meeting j this evening, and it will be noted tKat (Continued on page 4) BASEBAL GAMES. ' American League. Detroit 7, Chicago 6. Philadelphia 6, 6, New York 9, 9. Washington 5, Boston 4. Cleveland I, St. Louis 0. National League. F'ittsburg 11, Cincinnati 1. Boston 5. Philadelphia 2. Chicago 5, St. Louis 3. New York 7, Brooklyn 3. Pacific Coast League. " Oakland 3, 9, San Francisco 2, 1. Portland 4 Los Angeles 8. Northwest League. Tacoma 4 Vancouver 7. Seattle 6, Butte 6 (13 innings, game called on account of darkness) MAN WHO SHOT AUBLE COMMITS SUICIDE FATALLY WOUNDED LOS AN GELES POLICE CAPTAIN, YESTERDAY. TAKES POISON WHEN CAUGHT Sutherland After Escaping Officers is Traced to the Home of a Friend Where he Outwits the Law When Ordered to Surrender. , - LOS ANGELES, Sept. 9.-Carl Sutherland, the man who shot a,nd fatally wounded Captain of Police AubV today, committed suicide to night by taking poison. Sutherland was apprehended at the home of a friend. The police were waiting for him and as he approached the place they ordered him to throw up his hands. He did so, in one of his hands he carried a revolver. He dropped this but with the other hand carried a vial to his lips and" drank the con tents. Two minutes later he was dead. The vial contained cyanide of potash. MOST SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT ON RECORD Wright Aeroplane Makes Speed of 37 Miles an Hour for Over 62 Minutes WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-Oro-ville Wright in three phenomenal flights at Fort Meyer today establish ed a new aeroplane records that not only assure the success of the official rials before the army board but in dicate that aerial flight is now only a matter of development. Two flights of approximately one hour each and another in which two men were whirled through the air for more than six minutes were achieved today. The first flight was made this morning in which the machine cir cled the drill grounds 57 times in 57 minutes and 31 seconds and was sur passed this even when a flight of 62 minutes and 15 seconds was made. Not satisfied with breaking all dist nice and time records for heavier- than-air flying machines, Wright took Lieutenant Lauhm', an aeronaut of the signal corps for a spin around the drill grounds, making new record for a two-man flight. Wright as usual displayed no emotion but Lauhm was most enthusiastic. In the first flight this , evening the aeroplane circled the field 55 times at an estimated speed of 37 miles an hour. f The power was, Governorship Results Are' Still Incomplete MAKE SECOND COUNT. McBride Men Claim 40 Per Ct. of First Vote in Spokane County COSGROVE RETURNS STRONG Returns of 22 Out of 39 Counties Make Jones' Nomination for United States Senator Positive Other Re sults Slow.. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept.9 -Late incomplete returns from 22 out of 39 counties now point to the nomination of Jones for United States Senator over Ankeny by decisive pluralities. SPOKANE, Wash., Sept 9- Re ports from Tuesday's primary elec- ! tion received tonight indicate the selection of Congressman Wesley L. Jones as Republican nominee for Sen ator, in place of Levi Ankeny. Jones is estimated to have carried Spokane county by two to one. Walla Walla, Ankeny's home county, went against Jones heavily, but should favorable early reports from West Side coun ties be verified, Jones is believed to be the nominee. The vote for Snell, of Tacoma, is very light. Count of second choice votes is ex pected to be necessary to decide whether A. E. Mead is renominated for governor or superseded by Henry McBride ot S. G. Cosgrove to lead the Republican ticket McBride men claim 40 per cent of the first vote in Spokane county but it is not believed he received this percentage in ' the state as a whole, thus making a count (Continued on page 8.) not turned on in any of the flights. It is estimated 38.5 miles was covered in the longest flight. Secretary Wright, who witnessed the move ments of the machine said: "I sup pose this is the beginning of a steady development of this means of naviga tion." Secretary Metcalf declared the exhiibtion as remarkable. Perhaps the most enthusiastic man on the field was Secretary Strauss. General Murray, chief of artillery, de clared: "The problem of flight in the air is solved." 1 CARPENTER IS KILLED. WALLA WALLA, Sept. 9.-D. L. Cox, a pioneer carpenter of the Walla Wala valley residing at Waits burg, met death yesterday by being crushed beneath a building he was moving on a farm near Spring Val ley. Details of the accident could not be obtained tonight, but it is thought Mr. Cox was beneath the building placing sills when one of the tempo rary supports gave way and allowed the whole structure to fall on him killing him instantly.