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fa (1 ft 'OVERS THt MORNINQ FIELD ONTHX LOWER COLUMBIA PUILieHKt FULL At tOCIAriD FRZ8S REPORT 33rd YEAR. NO. 232 ' ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1 1CC3 PHICE FIVE CENTS L!1 I ur i i ft i j ik mil work in mi TO PRESERVE PEACE May Settle Turkey and Bulgaria Trouble FRANCE IS MEDIATOR Bulgaria Is Anxious for War, for Which Turkey Is III Prepared AUTHORITIES IN CONFERENCE France, Grcit Britain, Russia and Potiibly Italy Are Prepared to do V All in Their Power to Avoid Any :' More Complications. PARIS, Oct. S.-Francc ha essay ed the role mediator with the object of preventing war between Turkey and Bulgaria and as a result the foreign Minister Pichons in a scries of conferences today with represen tatives of the powers, and of an ac tive exchanges which has been going on between the various cabinets, it is announced tonight that France, Great Britain, Russia and possibly Italy, were prepared to act in unison to' pre serve peace and to call a conference of signatories of the Berlin treaty to deal diplomatically with the situation that has arisen between Turkey and Bulgaria and harmonise the conflict ing interests so that fresh complica tions may be avoided. Already certain tentative proposi tions as a baaia for such a conference has been forwarded to Constantinople and if the Portcs assent can be secur ed it is regarded as certain that peace will be maintained. The danger of war is believed to lie in the precipi tated action at Constantinople where the conflicting interests may force j Turkey to engage in war for which she is ill prepared. According to in formation tonight Bulgaria will wel come war as the Bulgarians are con voinccd that their army could march straight to Constantinople before the Turkish forces could be mobilized. , THREATEN WAR. BELGRADE. Oct. S The news of Austria-Hungary's action in regard to the annexation of the provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina has aroused Servia to the danger point. The streets this evening are thronged with a wild mob, many rioters are dis charging revolvers and demanding war with Austria, rather than submit to the annexation. TAFT AMONG THE "SHOW ME" FARMERS Republican Candidate Carries on Whirlwind Cam paign Through Missouri and Kansas MACON, Oct. 5. Taft made three speeches in Kansas and 13 in Mis souri today." Taft's reception in the various points today was such to cause him to express surprise and gratification. Referring to the matter he said: "It Is an augury that Mis souri is going to "Show" somebody at the next election that she does not Intend to remain a mysterious strang er, but will become a regular resident among republicans." ' ;. , , I Throughout the day Taft hammered away on the necessity of voters in the country to understand that the demo cratic tariff revision meant the de struction of the market and prices of HUGHES ATTACKS BRYAN. ST, PAUL, Oct. S.-"Mr. Bryan did the country a great service , by being twice defeated. Had he been elected 12 years ago he would not be candidate now, but would have gone down in the disaster of his own fallacies," in his speech here tonight Governor Hughes of New York thus summed up why he was working for the defeat of Bryan. He said he is supporting Taft because he is a "Cool headed, and warm hearted man of achievements." BASEBALL GAMES, American Leagues. Washington 3, Philadelphia 0. Chicago 6, Detroit 1. ' Boston 4, New York 0. National League. Boston 1, New York 8. Brooklyn 6, Philadelphia 1. SEATTLE ID TACOUA HEAR BEVER1DGE SENATOR ADDRESSES 7000 PEO PLE IN ARMY HALL AT PUGET SOUND TOWN. ON PACIFIC COAST INTERESTS Indiana Statesman ia Greeted With Large Crowds Everywhere A Great American Navy His Subject For Address at Seattle. SEATTLE, Oct. 5. Bcveridge to night addressed 7000 people in the armory. A prolonged ovation greet ed the Hoosier statesman. His sub ject was "A Great American Navy and the Interests of the People of the Pacific Slope," he handled it in non partison manner and was listened to the close attention of frequent inter ruptions of applause, t TACOMA, Oct. 5 Before an cn thusistic audience this afternoon United States Senator Albert J, Bcv eridge of Indiana, issued an open challenge of the democratic national committee to take at the poje demo cratic members of the United States Senate on the specific question wheth er they will support Bryan in his franchise plan for the government to control business and manufacturing industries, his injunction plan and other radical measures which the Ne braska!! is advocating. the products of the farm; that the republican revision meant a continua tion of the present prices and pros perity. Rain was falling before the Taft special made its second stop and throughout the day crowds assembled to welcome Taft and braved the steady. drizzle. ' v PLEADS "NOT GUILTY." BELLINGHAM, Oct. 5. J. K. .Thomas, who confessed to the mur der of his wife today pleaded not (tuilty to a charge of murder in the first degree. Hie will plead self-defense. The trial will probably be in November. " fi'ElV LUMBER RATE TO TAKE EFFECT OCT. 15 Appeal of Railroads Will Not In terfere With Law BELLINGHAM, Oct. 5.-J. H. Bloedel, manager of Larson Lumber Company, and a leading spirit in the fight of the Washington and Oregon lumbermen against the railroads for a 40-cent lumber rate recently granted by the Interstate Commerce Commis sion states he has the assurances from W. W. Broughton, general traf fic manager of the Great Northern, that the appeal of the railroads now before the Commission will not inter fere with placing in effect the new rate scheduled for October IStlu An increase in nor hwe st lumber ship ments is expected. SUBMARINE TEST. CHERBOURG, Oct. 5-Submarine Emcraude arrived here today from a run of 81 hours in which she covered 693 miles under water. The vessel maintained her regular speed of nine knots an hour. The crew, was much fatigued but bore the severe trial ad mirably. NEW CONSULAR PORT. WASHINGTON, Oct. S.-The im portance of India's growing north west port of Karachi has led to the establishment of an American consu late there and Consult General Mi chael at Calcutta in a report today says ibat material expansion - of trade may be expected. TRANS - MISSISSIPPI CONGRESS SESSION TW About a Thousand Delegates Assemble at Frisco to Participate in Commercial Congress IMPORTANT QUESTIONS WILL BE DECIDED Keynote of Meeting Expected to Be Sounded Today In Address of J. B. Case Congress Will Include Representatives From Eighteen States and Four Territories SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5.- Thronging the corridors of the lead ing hotels, viewing the massive crea tions of steel and concrete that have replaced the desolate areas of two years ago and participating enthusi asm in conferences preliminary to the Nineteenth Trans-Mississippi Com mercial Congress, nearly 1000 dele gates to the five days' session that organization tonight await the call to order. J. B. Case of Abilene, Kansas, will wield the gavel at tomorrow's open ing session and his introductory ad dress is expected to sound to keynote of a conference whereat the Western half of the United States, through 'its commercial and promotion organiza tions, will voice not only its demands upon congress, but the policy of its numerous membership, upon the con servation of natural resources, irriga tion and scientific care and the cul ture of soil; improvement of rivers and harbors; the need of a merchant marine and a fleet to make possible its advent; trade relations with the Orient and the balance of the West ern Hemisphere and a score or more of sectional issues considered of suf ficient importance to affect the wel fare of the West, The congress is expected to in clude . representatives of 18 states, !our territories and dependencies and dx foreign countries. While many districts will be represented' by an officer, of their -foremost commercial bodies, Utah, Washington, Colorado and California will send the govern in STATE MENT Oil TRUSTS :l,i Says Bonaparte Did Not Give Information Wanted f" . ;7 CHICAGO, Oct. S.-Addresaing an open letter to Bonaparte tonight, Jo- sephus' Daniels, chairman of the pub licity bureau of the democratic na tional committee, asserts that the at torney general in a recent reply to an inquiry for a statement showing how many trusts did business in the Unit ed States had been prosecuted by the department of y-,r.ke did not furnish the information ..desired, but instead confused the prosecutions under the Sherman anti-trust law with the prosecutions of railroads and indiv- uals under contracts. Daniels sub mits to the attorney general the four questions as follows: 1 How many of the 287 trusts, giving names, arc doing business in the United States, have been prose cuted by the present administration? 2 How many of those trusts, nam ing then separately, have been fined and the separate amounts? 3 After a trust has been fined, what other steps have been taken to prevent its continuing illegal prac tices for which it was forced to pay the penalty? ' 4 How many officials of these 287 trusts have been criminally prose cuted and how many have been con victed and terms of imprisonment, giving names of each person who has been , imprisoned for violating the law? ' ors or official representatives and President Roosevelt's representative will be William R. Wheeler, assistant secretary of commerce and Jabor. Tomorrow's session will be confin ed to the organization and a cruise about San Francisco Bay. Condemning selfishness of section alism, urging the immediate necessity of the nation action to revive the waning maritime traffic in western seas, enlisting for a campaign of edu cation that is to include inland Amer ica as well as Atlantic seaboard, the executive representatives of. the most powerful commercial bodies of Ore gon, Washington and California unr dertook today to organize .an asso ciation which will in the future direct as a unit the congressional represen tation of the three states. In person or by cordial message, the senators and congressmen whose co-operation was asked and approved the move ment undertaken, an'd pointed out the necessity concerned in the action against the overwhelming represen tation, of the Atlantic states and un dertook further by every means in their power, such measures as a ship subsidy and enlarged merchant ma rine; two great navy yards on the Pacific1, a fleet commensurate with the value of property to be protected and the advancement of such local 'nterests, river and harbor improve ments as will tend toward advance nent.of America's western seaboard. A committee was appointed to ar range the formation of the tri-state association. UY fl A DO III REGARDING HIS 3RD ATTEMPT ' NASHVILLE, N C, Oct. .-Arraigning the president and his leaders during the republican campaign, Kern declared: ' :;.': : ' 1 "Patriotic men everywhere will agree with me that the third term idea is no more hateful to the minds of the American people that that the president of this great nation should undertake to name and dictate his own successor." NO DECISION. , CINCINNATI, Oct. 5. -The board of directors of the national league adjourned tonight without reaching a decision in the disputed game of September 23rd between the New York and Chicago clubs. They will render a decision tomorrow even ing. JAPAN III GIVE TIE 170RL0 A LESSO; IN GRACEFUL ART OF WEL COMING THE FLEET AND OFFICERS OF A FRIEND MAGNIFICENT PROGRAM AHEAD Yokohama the Scene of Initiating the Splendor Admiral Sperry to be Received by the Emperor Many Athletic Events. TOKIO, Oct. 5. Japan is planning to give the American battleship fleet a welcome that shall eclipse in splen dor and enthusiasm any of the previ ous receptions tendered the American vessels on their voyage around the world. The arrival of the fleet at Ma nila has given a stimulus to the in terest in their forthcoming visit to Japan and the preparations for the constant entertainment of the Ameri can officers and men are now com pleted. The vessels are due here October 17, and will remain a week. When the 16 warships under com mand of Admiral Sperry steam into Yokohama harbor, the salutes of their guns will be answered in kind from 16 battleships of the Japanese army. These vessels already are at anchor off this city. Sperry and the of ficers of the fleet of high rank will be received in audience October 20 by (Continued on page 8) HEARST NOW TAKES HIS RAP AT KERN Reads Affidavits of Newspaper Lien Who Claim Kern Said He Owed Nomination to Taggard LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5. -The speech of Hearst tonight was devoted almost entire to an attack on Kern. He referred to finding a pass on the Big Four made out to the name of Kern, and said the Big Four is a part of the Vanderbilt system which he said had been successfully prooe-.uted by the federal government for grant ing rebates to the American Refining Company. He also devoted attention to Kern's employment by Thomas Taggart as his attorney and discussed in detail the alleged gambling at French Lick Springs, Ind. Hearst read affidavits to two newspaper men in attendance at the democratic na HE1PI LIFE OF fl COURT HDD Edward Martin, Who As saulted Edith Ralston GETS LIFE SENTENCE After Hearing of an Hour and a Half fjegro Gets Maximum Punishment SEVERAL HURT IN THE RIOT Crowd Was Frantic to Get Martin and Fight Officer Who Finally Re store Order After Using Their Clubs Freely No Arrests Made. LOS ANGELES, Oct. S.-Follow-ing a scene of riotous disorder today, in which several persons were slight ly injured in an attempt to take him from the police and lynch him, Ed ward Martin, the negro who last Fri day night assaulted Miss Edith Ral ston, a concert singer, at Colegrove, was spirited to the courtroom of Su perior Judge Curtis D. Wilbur, where he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the maximum punishment life im prisonment. He will be taken to Folsom penitentiary tomorrow night. Less than an hour an a half elapsed between the time that the negro was brought into court for his prelimi nary hearing and the time that Judge Wilbur pronounced the penalty of life imprisonment. Martin is said to be a deserter from the Navy. The riotous demonstration occur red this morning in Justice H. C. Austin's courtroom, immediately after Martin had been held to the Super ior Court." . Justice Austin had been warned that serious trouble might occur when the negro was brought into court, and requested that' a sufficient police force be assigned to maintain order. Fourteen patrolmen were detailed. Martin was brought in handcuffed to Patrolman Stevens, a colored offi cer. A large crowd completely pack ed the small courtroom and filled the corridors outside. The hearing was brief and after Miss Ralston had re lated the circumstances of the attack and positively identified Martin, the court ordered him bound over to the Superior Court under $5000 bail. As Officer Stevens was taking Mar tin through a rear door to return him (Continued on pa 8.) tional convention at Denevr, who stated Kern said to them that h is indebted for his nomination to Tag gart. . Hearst read a letter from Archbold to United States Depew thanking the latter for the railroad' pass alleged to be on the New York Central lines of which system he said, Depew was "The : representative in the United States Senate." Thomas L. Hisgen, Independence party candidate, also addressed the audience, devoting himself to various issues of the campaign and explained reasons for the existence of the Inde ! pendence party.