33rd YEAR. NO. 233
ASTORIA, OREGOM
"DAY, OCTOBER 7, 1S03
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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FOR AGMDIZEffll
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Are Annexed
SERVIA IS PROTESTING
Emperor Francis Joseph Issues
Proclamation of
Annexation
TURKEY CALLS ON POWERS
Other Poweri Interested in Berlin
Treaty Discussing Holding of Con
ference to Consider Delicate Prob
lemTurkey's Policy is Praised.
LONDON', Oct. 6.-The second
nnd culminating step in the Austro
Bulgarian program for the aggramli
mcnt of themselves at the expense of
the status chtablihcd by the treaty
of Berlin, was consummated tonight
when Emperor Francis Joseph form
ally proclaimed the practical annexa
tion of Botmia and Herzegovina to
'dual monarchy. The present situation
is as follows:
iurkey calls upon the powers to
preserve what they were guaranteed
by the treaty. Austria and Bulgaria
strongly declare their determination
to keep what they have taken. Scr
via is protesting belligerently against
being hemmed in more strongly be
tween its two unpopular neighbors
and against having Servians in Bos
nia absorbed into Austro-Hungary
nationality. Others powers concern
ed in the IJcrlin treaty arc discussing
the holding of an international con
ference to consider this most delicate
problem. Turkey's unexpected pol
icy of restraint minimizes the possi
bilities of war, which is now consid- j
crcd out of the question. English
papers unite in praising Turkey's
moderation and in denouncing Aus
tria. A conference of the powers is ex
pected to be held within two or three
months but no one believes it will
undo this week's work. Austria de
clines even to discuss the annexation
and the most that is expected is
some arrangement that will save
Turkey's pride. Before the powers
agree to enter a conference they will
probably be corhpclled to define its
scope, which is a hard task. British
statesmen suggest that compensation
be made Turkey and that a guarantee
be given against further disturbance
of status quo.' ;
BEVERIDGE SPEAKS
TO PORTLANDERS
Senator Opens Republican Campaign in Oregon
Before Enthusiastic Gathering at the Rose City
PORTLAND, Oct. 6,-Uuited
States Senator Albert J. Beveridge
tonight addressed an audience that
crowded the big. county armory in
this city to suffocation and incident
ally opened the republican campaign
in Oregon. Frequently the speaker
wag interrupted by Vociferous ap
plause especially his allusions to the
present chief executive of the nation
.and to Judge Taft.
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BASEBALL GAMES.
American League.
Washington 3, Philadelphia 2.
Boston 11, New York 3.
National League.
Chicago 0, Detroit 7. f
New Yorlc 4, Doston C
Pacific Coast League.
Los Angeles 9, Portland 2,
.Oakland 4, San Francisco 5.
NO DECISION.
Court Takea Under Advisement Port'
land Injunction Proceedings.
PORTLAND," Oct. 6.-The argu
mcnts on the demurrer filed by Dis
trict Attorney Cameron in the in
jur. ',on pro tedings restnjniiig him
and iher counry and rv atthortics
f.iu etiforcin? an ant uu ', Sunday
ci..ing law vhVh has Lew o dead
letter for half a century, were heaul
today by Judge Gantenbein in the
equity department of the state rir
cuit court today. The court took the
matter under advisement.
BRYAfi CONTINUES TO
RAP 0PP0IIT8
DEMOCRATIC LEADER DE
NOUNCES TAPT ON PUBLI
CATION OF FUNDS.
IS IN FINE SPEAKING FORM
Peerless One Challenges His Oppon
ents to Meet Hia Arguments De
clares Republican Policies Mean
Disaster.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Oct. 6.-"I pre
sent myself as an example of one
who outlived the venomous attacks of
his opponents. You heard me called
a demagogue 12 years ago; you saw
them bury me, and you heard them
chant their songs over my grave and
now they have to explain why it
happens I am not dead." With all
the fervor he could muster Colonel
Bryan facing a vast assemblage in
Chatauqua auditorium between Tama
and Toledo, today delivered himself
to this utterance. His remark fol
lower bitter denunciation oft Taft
for refusing to agree to the publica
tion of campaign contributions be
fore elections. Drawing large crowds
all day in course his travels through
the state, the, democratic candidate
was never in better form, lie hurled
defiance at his opponents and chal
lenged them to meet his arguments.
Fifteen speeches and handshaking
with thousands constituted his day's
work. The keynote of his speech in
Cedar Rapids tonight was that the re
publican policies meant disaster and
democratic policies meant prosperity.
He entered into a general discus
sion of the issues of the present
campaign devoting considerable at
tention to Bryan and Bryan's theo
ries. He stated Bryan would be
powerless if elected to secure the en
actment of laws he desires because
of the Senate which .would be an
tagonistic to him. Beveridge declar
ed the theories Bryan makes, most
prominent are fallacies and impos
sible, of realization.
CLATSOP COUNTS
ASSESSED
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The assessment roll of Clatsop county, as . completed, shows
some interesting figures, A comparison with the roll of 1907
v shows that the lOOtt roll t-irrrAt th l.m., in ,,.,,1 k., 1ono.
000. Timber lands show a large increase being nearly one-half of
the total increase, $1,252,286. City lots and lands come a close sec
ond with $1,221,809 while tillable lands show an - increase of but
541439.
A reduction in the levies is expected in proportion to the in
creased assessment," as. with the increased amount of taxable prop
crty sufficient funds can be obtained by a lower levy basing the
deductions on last year's expenditures. It is readily understood that
the lower the amount of property values, which can be taxed, the
higher the tax levy must necessarily be, and the higher the as
sessment the lower the levies for a given income. This will be
taken into consideration by those who at first blush may object to
an increase in their assessments but who, on second thought, will
sec the equity of the action:
CLASSIFICATION OF. ASSESSED PROPERTY.
Tillable land, 5379.9 acres..'.. .T.. ; $ 94,761
Non-tillable land, 478,997 acres . t,r'. ; 3,881,201
Improvements on deeded land 160,569
City lots . .'..v.;.':....'.... 2,479.131
Improvements on city lots 647,511
Improvements on lands not deeded 17,150
Railway bed, telegraph and telephone lines, 389.25 miles.,. 431,559
Railway rolling stock 96,225
Steamers and machinery ...... 106,400
Merchandise . . , ........... ... i, ...... 323,712
Farm' implements . , 23,125
Money . 131,700
Notes and accounts 1,800
Shares of stock, 1500. . 210,500
Household goods ... 68,960
Horses and mules, 917 35,440
Cattle, 2872 , ' 53,115
Sheep and goats, 829..., 1.2S2
Swine, 312 ,.. 631
Total.......
TRANS - miSSISSIPPI coneRESS
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Eighteen States Four Territories and Four Foreign
Countries Are Represented By Delegates
ENTHUSIASTIC AND
The Congress Opened Under the
Much Enthusiasm Manifested Addresses of Welcome De
livered by State and City Officials
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 6.-The
19th Trans-Mississippi Commercial
Congress, with a thousand or more
delegates from the western half -of
the United States attending, all of
them men of high position in the
affairs of the Nation and of their re
spective states, began its five-day de
liberations here today with a displ'
of enthusiasm by the delegates fu
augurs well for a successful and in
teresting session. Temporary Chair
man J. B. Case, of Abilene, Kan.,
called the delegates to order, and in
his opening remarks pointed the way
for the many prominent speakers
who are to follow him, dwelling at
some length on the vast work that
there is to be done in the West in the
way of conservation of natural 're
sources and expansion of present in
dustries to a far wider scope than,:has
yet been . attempted. The speaker
argued that as the deliberations f
the congress in the past had led to
the inception of many great under
takings for the material benefit of the
Western States, it was natural to
suppose that each year's session
would prove more important than the
one before jt, as the people of the
districts affected by such undertak
ings came to realize the full signifi
cance of these gatherings. .
Among the delegates vere the
representatives of 18 states, four ter
ritories and six foreign countries,
while the National Government was
also represented in the person of W.
R, Wheeler, Assistant Secretary of
Commerce and Labor,
SAN FRANCISCO,' Oct. 6,-Presw
lent J. B. Case in his opening address,
reviewed the subjects to come before
'fro.
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VALUATIONS
$8,764,742
INTERESTING SESSION
Most Auspicious Conditions and
the congress for consideration and
made recommendations as , to the
government policy. He praised the
government's wonderful - reclamation
service, which has awakened the sleep
ing desert, saying:
- "The work as a whole rivals the
v,ama Canal in the labor and ex
"y :nyolved. The employment of
C . and the expenditure of $1,
4tt $ xnonth are but incidents
in v O . slready the canals
compiv. . total of 1,815
miles as v m San Francisco
to Kansas C. ' Homes have been
made for 10,000 lamilies where before
was barren land."
President Case hoped" that settle
ment of the unoccupied lands would
be encouraged by the government in
sensible ways.He continued:
''The idea t availing in early days
of the republic that the public do
main should be used as a revenue
producer, abandoned in favor of the
better method o'f using the same for
settlement, should not be revived.
The west should be settled up. , The
quicker the public domain passes in
to private ownership the better, it
will be for us. Dry farming home
steads should be enlarged to 520 or
640 acres. A large homestead should
be given for dry farming and a smal
ler one to the irrigated districts.. Loy
al and earnest co-operation is needed
between the national reclamation ser
vice and the state governments that
are trying to reclaim lands under the
Carey Act and no conflicts should oc
cur or jealousies "exist. Title for
government land under favorable ir-
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DETROIT 118 IK
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DUNSMUIR'S WILL.
VICTORIA, Oct. fe.-Mrs. Uuns
muir's wiH was read today. It dis
poses of an estate valued in the
neighborhood .." of ' $2,000,000. Aside
from $85,000 to distant relatives, the
estate is divided between five daugh
ters equally.
' APPROVES SENATORS.
SALT LAKE, Oct. 6.In the clos
ing hours of general conference of
the Mormon church, President Smith
put his seal of approval on Utah's
present representation in congress
which consists of Senators Smoot
and Sutherland and Representative
Howell, all republicans. Because of the
influence President's Smith's utter
ances, are supposed to have upon
Mormons, his words caused a sen
sation in political circles. Smoot and
Howell are Mormons, Sutherland
non-Mormon. 1
TUG CAPTAIN DEIS
C0I1Q1CE CHARGE
MASTER OF HATTIE GAGE
ARRIVES AT SEATTLE AND
TELLS HIS STORY.
CUT LOOSE TO SAVE HIS TUG
Captain Farrar Declzres the Storm
That Wrecked the Star of Bengal
to be the Worst- One in His Ex
perience of 13 Years.
BELLINGHAM, Oct. 6.-A spec
ial from Blaine says that Captain
Erving Farrar. master of the tug
Hattie Gage, which is one of the
two claimed to have deserted the
bark "Star of Bengal" in Alaskan
waters, arrived in Blaine yesterday
and left for Seattle today. Farrar
denies the charges of cowardice
against him, stating that he only cut
the lines which bound his boat to the
Star of Bengal when it was" neces
sary to save his own craft and men.
He declares the storm in which the
Star of Bengal was wrecked was the
worst in his 13 years' experience 1 on
the Pacific.
A NEW RECORD.
LEXINGTON, Ky., Oct. 6.-In
the 3-year-old class trotting Futurity
here this afternoon, The Harvester
won three heats. The last heat was
made in 2:081, which is a hew Futur
ity record.
TAFT ENDS
Western Campaign Tour
to Immense Crowds in fJissouri
ST. LOUIS; Oct. 6.-With a 12-
hour demontration of cordiality, po
litical enthusiasm and intense interest
in this city today and tonight furn
ished appropriate a climax to the
western campaign trip of Judge Taft
which ended here today. The candi
date spoke to an immense audience in
the nearly finished auditorium from
which as many were turned away as
were admitted. He followed , tins
with open air address at Clayton, a
suburb and county seat of St. Louis
county and then rushed to East St.
Louis where he addressed a large
I LEAGUE
Ellff
Wins From Chicago in
Shut-Out Contest
PLAYERRORLESS GAL1E
New York Will Play Boston Today-Must
Win Id
Tio
DECIDES ON CONTESTED GAf.'E
National League Directors Decide
That the Contested New York
Chicago Game Must be Played Off
and Game Called For Tomorrow.
Final Standing American League.
Detroit . . .588
Chicago . .579
At Chicago, American League:
Chicago ...00 0 0 0 00 0 0-0 2 5
Detroit .'....4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2-7 13 0
R.H.E.
CHICAGO, Oct 6. Frenzied fans,
keyed to wildest enthusiasm by the
critical stage of the American League
series in which today's game between
the Chicago club and the Detroit
team decided the championship,
disregarded the Weather Bureau pre
diction of rain and long before the
hour for the game to be called, hur-'
ried to the South Side ball park.
At noon, 'when the gates were
thrown open, long lines of enthusi
asts were wailing at every entrance.
Many had been holding their places
in line for hours. Most of them over
whelmed the sandwich counter and
with food in hand joined the rush for
seats. . ' ' ,,
A squad of workmen rolled the dia
mond while from the home plate they
drew long, straight foul lines, dusted
the bags and otherwise prepared a
fitting scene for the league's most
important game of the season.
At 2:30 o'clock every foot of avail
able space being taken, the gates
were closed. Play began at 2:38
o'clock. White pitched for Chicago.
National League Championships.
NEW YORK, Oct 6-New York's
chances of playing off a final decisive
game with Chicago for the National
League pennant brightened today
when the home club again won, from
Boston. This makes the standing of
the leaders as follows:
Chicago, .641 ; New York, .638;
Pittsburg, .636. 1
New York plays its final game with
(Contin4 on pasr 8.)
TRIP
AT SAINT LOUIS
Finished With Speeches
gathering of employes at the stock
yard. The local afternoon papers es
timated fully" 50,000 strangers came to
the city to say, "Hello Bill," to the
Ohioan. Certainly it was that wher
ever he went or stayed, Taft was the
center of immense crowds. The line
of march from the station to the
Planter's Hotel was through two
crowds of people who blocked either
side of the sidewalk and street : He
was compelled to, stand with hat in
his hand the entire distance of more
than a mile, acknowledging ' saluta
tions. ,