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
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BRYAN'S CAMPAIGN IN
EAST STARTED
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KEIIY SEEPS ASSURED
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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
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FIRE AT
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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
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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
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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.