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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1908)
SE'.TLT IS ACCUBED svjAYiiiG urn mm Charged With Promising Office to D. J. Keefe KEEFE MAKES DENIAL Leader's 'Influence for 'Taft Claimed to Be Purchased by Promise , tit f HE WILL VOTE FOR TAFT The Office of Commissioner General of Immigration Said to be the Price of the Labor Leaders Change of Heart . NEW YORK, Oct. 13-The demo cratic national committee, through John J. Jordan, assistant chief of the press bureau at headquarters tonight made public a statement which in substance says that it was stated at the democratic headquarters tonight that President Roosevelt by fhe .promise of office has succeeded in causing the desertion of one of the big "labor leaders' from President Gompers in his advocacy of the elec tion of Bryan; that, the labor leader in question is Daniel J. Keefe, presi dent of the Longshoremen's Interna tional Association; that the offer of being' . named' commissioner-general of immigration made vacant by the death of Commissioner Sargent was made by the president when he and Kecfe were closeted together Octo ber 3; that Keefe last Saturday issued a statement that he was going to vote for Taft; that this was directly oppo site to a circular issued by the fed eration calling for the defeat of Taft and signed by Kecfe among others. The statement says that if Keefe or the president denies the charge an other big labor leader will come for ward with facts to prove that the offer was made and that Keefe ac cepted it. DETROIT, . Oct 13. -President Keefe categorically denied thaA he has been offered the position of commissioner-general of immigration in consideration of the support of Taft. WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.-Secre- tary Locb said that nothing in reply LUDICROUS ERROR DISCOVERED LATE Two Van Loads of Republican Literature Is Dump ed in Democratic Hailing Room and Hailed CHICAGO, Oct. 13. National Chairman Mark tins addressed a let ter to the chairman of all state com 'mittees in which he charges that the calling upon friendly business; inter ests to create and spread the ini , pression. that' the : election of - Bryan means business depression in order "to frighten the public into voting trie .republican, ticket.; ' ; Republican literature received un expected . publicity through , demo cratic channels today when two van loads of campaign literature were dumped into the mailing room of the democratic national committee. The i:i.i.ira wlii Mi was intended for iitviti.uiv .. , " the republican headquarters one block ' away was in. Bohemian, OF to the Keefe statement wai to bn giv en out at the While House tonight but that the charge would probably receive attention tomorrow, Kecfe waa one of the president! callers October 3rd, ao waa Patrick H. Morrissey, head of the brother hood of railway trainmen. AGED BIGAMIST. ?v ' NEVADA, Mo,, Oct. 13.-Rev. W. W. H. Force, aged 74, pleaded guilty of bigamy today and waa sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. He admitted the charge when con fronted with two of his former wives. His excuse was that his memory was bad and that he could not always re member whether he was married. U. 8. SUPREOE COURT . IS 111 SESSIOn MANY MATTERS OP IMPORT ANCE WILL ARISE FOR ADJUDICATION. BROWNSVILLE CASE 13 CE Texas Decision Ousting Waters Pierce Oil Company and Imposing Big Fine Also on Docket Various Other Appeals, of Importance. , ' WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.-Begin-ning at 12 o'clock today the call of the docket in the Supreme Court of the United , States for the 1908 09 term was begun. Among the other matters of interest, many important railroad questions will receive the court's attention and of these the appeal from the decision of the Uni ted States Circuit Court for the East ern District of Pennsylvania on the "Commodities clause " of the inter state commerce law as affecting the anthracite coal roads, will probably occupy first place with the jpublic. , An important case near the head of the call is that of the Waters Pierce Oil Company of St. Louis. This is an appeal by the company from decisions of the Texas State courts ousting the company from do ing business in that state and im posing a fine of more than $1,600,000 'against it on the charge of violating , (Continued on page 8) Licuthcan and Slavish and before it was discovered that the documents were appeals for the election of Taft, most 6f the literature had been mailed to voters. WAHOO, Oct. 13. Accompanied by nearly all the democratic candi . dates for state offices, Col. Bryan to .day and tonight at this place com ; pleted the first of hiu three-day Ne braska tour. ! , , Big crowds greeted him at every point and when his day's work was over he had delivered 21 ' speeches. His arguments were confined mostly to answering the statements of Judge Taft and Governor Hughes who re cently visited this state. The au- Idienccs were mostly farmers. ALIERiOAUBALLOOn IMS SUMS TO' Falls Into North Sea and Aero n&uts ttm Clcss Shiva BERLIN,' Oct. 13.-The second of the three American balloons that started in the .race for International trophy! Sunday has met disaster in the North Sea. " The St. Louis Inan ne4 by N. II. Arnold and Harry J, Hewitt was carried overland by the treacherous 'air currents and later in the haze, aeronuats lost their bear ings until suddenly last night they saw the guard lights of an unknown coast. This meant they must descend or risk the danger of being driven far out of the track of vessels. They chose the former course and for an hour they were buffetted by waves almost giving up , in despair. Event ually' they were rescued by a life boat. Three of the balloons in the international race arc' still "unac counted for.. They are the German balloons Busley, Spanish Castilla and Swiss Helvetia.' Two of the compe titors in Monday's endurance trial have not reported and it is believed they have escaped the changable lower currents and have succeeded in reaching Russia. .' A report from Wangerloog Island in the North Sea, says a balloon pass ed over there. A flotilla of torpedo boat destroyers is searching the Korth Sea where thick fog pre vails. The English balloon ' Bansee so far as present estimates go has covered the longest distance of the race 275 miles. , SUPREL1E COURT SIII1II Four Actions Were Consolidated in One Case on Which the Decision Was Rendered THE SECRETARY OF Court Holds That Contention That Primary Law Tends to Destroy Political Parties Is Question for.PeopIe cf Stats to Settle Themselves OLMPIA, Oct. 13. By a decision today by the supreme court the di rect primary law is upheld in every particular. The decision, which con solidated into one case four, actions brought recently, was written by Justice Fullerton, Justices Hadley, Mount, Dunbar and Rudkin concur- ring- ('.."' 'V' ; " ' V: Justices Crow and Root, who were themselves candidates in the recent primary elction took no voice in the decision. The decision holds that suf ficient time was "given to act, and in this connection the court ruled the indefinite provision requiring candi dates to file a statement of expenses, "Not less than 10 days after the primaries," should be construed ! as meaning "within a reasonable time." The court -declined to pass upon the question whether the nominations for congressman and preference for United States Senator are properly part of the state primary law stating that the question is extraneous to the issue before the court. The fee provision is sustained and declared to be a reasonable charge upon candidates toward paying ex penses of primaries. It was also held that because a candidate ss com pelled to declare his party affiliation before voting at a primary election, such requirement cannot be con strued as imposing 'additional quali fication upon voters. - . Court holds the contention that 'he primary law tends to destroy the MAW-SPEC E8 By FSOE Prince George cf Servia is Incit Ins Pe&pla to War VIENNA, Oct. 13.-The inflamma tory speeches of Crown Prince George of Servia, who is inciting the pec-iile jo war, while hi father, King Peter, has observed an attitude of caution, causes considerable uneasi ness in official circles in Belgrade acording to dispatches received here. There is less fear of a war than of a dynastic crisis and an attempt to place the crown prince on the throne. The Servian premier has tried "vainly ta suppress the Crown Prince, for it is feared that he may lead bands of volunteer against Bosnia or do something equally rash. BASEBALL GAMES. Portland 7, San Francisco 3. Los Angeles 5, Oakland 2. ANOTHER "SURE CURE." PARIS, Oct. 13. Professor Lan uclonge, of the University of Paris, has discovered an anti-tubercular serum which is said to be, the most efficacious remedy of the kind ever used. Of .eleven phthisical patiefnts inoculated with the new serum, ten have either been cured or nave shown improvement. Further experiments are expected to show even better re sults. . " ' ; flHS THE PRIM W STATE ACTS RIGHTLY political parties is a question for the people of the state to settle for them selves and one in which the courts are not interested. Taking up indi vidual cases, the court decies in the matter of O. W. Holcomb, primary nominee for the office of Superior Judge of Adam, Benton and Frank lin counties, that the secretary of state acted rightly in certifying his candidacy and. in refusing to certify that of W. Wl Zent. In the case's of W. H. White, peti tion candidate for superior judg ship in King county, and E. K. Pen dergast, petition candidate for the superior judgship in Okanogan, coun ty the old statute providing for nom ination by petition is repealed by the primary law ; and the . secretary of state tightly refused to certify , their candidacy. , ' , - 1 In the case of Charles E.' Coon, who was defeated in the primary election by . M. E. Hay for re-nomination or by second choice votes, the court holds to be untenable the contention that second choice requires a voter to vote for a person not his choice for the office. 4 Finally the legislature is declared to have the power to make , a law providing that a candidate receiving less than 40 per cent of the total vote cast shall not be declared to be the party choice and that the second choice provision of the primary law is reasonable. io r Cllf HIP SERIES CHOLERA ABATING. MANILA, Oct. 13. The. number of new cases of cholera has declined to about five cases daily and these are chiefly confined to one or two of the congested native districts. ' CASE DISMISSED. CHICAGO, Oct. 13.-Municipal Judge Eberhardt yesterday dismissed for want of prosecution the $100,000 breach of promise suit brought by Marie Smith against Robert J. Gun ning, president of the Gunning Sys tem of bill posting. This action was taken after counsel for Miss Smith, who failed to appear, had asked that the case be continued., STCLBi Dill IE COSILY Mil FOSTER GEORGE, THE ALLEG ED THIEF, IS TAKEN IN " ST. LOUIS. Gf.:S V.'OHTH $25,C23 Big Haul Had Been Made From a New York Wholesale Diamond Merchant, And George is Supposed to be the Perpetrator of Job. ST. LOUIS, Oct 13.-The police of New York, Chicago and Kansas City were notified by the St. Louis police yesterday of the arrest here of Foster George, on a charge of steal ing diamonds and watches worth $35,000 from S. C. Powell, a whole sale jeweler at 170 Broadway, N. Y., and arrests are expected today in those cities. Twenty-five thousand dollars worth of the jewels were recovered from George yesterday and the rest are believed to have been pawned. Diamonds known to have been car ried by Powell when he left Chicago for St. Louis, June 29, have appeared in pawnshops in St. Louis, Kansas City and Chicago. This led the de tectives to believe that an organized band was connected with the robbery and this belief was not entirely dis- (ContiDd on pasr 8.1 ENORMOUS MOB . .. HEMS PARLIAMENT Siiftr ntitn I: niprj:si in Proportions About LONDON, Oct. 13.-fThe climax of suffragette campaign was reached tonight when an enormous mob hem med in parliament and stopped traf fic in all the streets leading to Westminster,- For more than three hours the crowd scuffled good naturedly with the police : and : interfered with theatre-goers, broke windows and disorganized things, generally in the center of London. The heroine of the day was Mrs. Traver3 Symons, for merly secretary to James Keir liar die, socialist and independent mem ber of parliament, who reached the doors by strategy. The house was solemnly debating the bill to prevent children from " smoking - cigarettes when a woman dashed past the "door keeer to a position in front of the speaker's chair and shouted: "Leave oft discussing children and mm I Chicago flew Has Three Out cf the Six Garros THE SCORE WAS 3 TOO Summers and f'srdccal Crc.vn tit 8 Opposing Pitchers CK1CA23 NEED 0,"E f.'CE Good Weather Brings Out Large Crowd to Witness Interesting Game Great Interest ia Today's Contest DETROIT,' Oct 13. Chicago crept one game closer to the world's championship today by defeating De troit by a score of 3 to 0. Chicago now has three games of the series as compared with one- annexed by Detroit at Chicago yesterday, Eddie Summers of Detroit, and Mordecai Brown, premier pitcher of the Chicago team, opposed each other and the latter had all the bet ter of the argument although Sum mers pitched excellent ball in alt but one inning. In the third inning Sum mers passed two on balls some of which to" the crowd looked very much like strikes. He was cutting corners in whirlwind fashion and either way would have changed the umpire's verdict. Sheckard and Evers as a result of the sprightly efforts of Coughlin and Schaefer had been retired, Summers wavered ever so little and Schulte was presented with standing room on the initial bag, Tatt, Chicago's rightfielder, rightly concluded to try out Schmit's throwing arm. The said arm was tried and found wanting. Schmidt's unsuccessful throw to sec ond was the first of four similar failures which netted Chicago's two runs. Chicago's next and final run occurred in the ninth when Winters took Summer's place in the box. The change made no difference to Chi cago. With two out Evers sent a tSsgle to left, stole second and came (Continued on page 8.) London A Great 50,000 Peopta Gather talk about women." Three officials seized Mrs. Symons and carried her out bodily. She was then led to the outer door and dismissed,..::'"-'. ' About 50,000 persons assembled" this evening to "rush" parliament. Not less than twice. that number re sponded to call and nine-tenths were young persons who came to see the funL Parliament was in a state of siege. The police, numbering about 200 guarded the rear of the build ing. The total number of police and soldiers mobilized in the center of the city numbering more than 5000 were kept busy restraining the push ing and struggling mass in Trafalgar Square. Suffragettes and unemployed have kept practically the whole force on duty continuously for 43 hours. run