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ASTORIA LlEEICIIAilTS ARE AGA
VICTIMS OF BAD CHECKS
Hi!
Another Jew American
Auto Speed Record. ,
A TWO. HAM CONTEST
almost ntiracutouiily he killed no
one,, When the crowd fell back,
however, officials using a water hose
to disperse it, a youth of 18 lay in
the roadway, his leg crushed. With
this one exception the race came oil
without serious accident, though mis
haps to the contestants and the care
were plentiful, , J '
Owing to Unmanageable Thronrjs
Judges Disqualify All But
the Two Leaders.
AUTO CRASHES INTO CROWD
Spectators BeyoaA Control Rush Into
Track Just Machine ! Coming
Down the Court Auto Flies Into
Crowd Injuring Only One.
NEW : YORK. Oct -Before t
crowd of 20,000 speed-mad motor
enthusiasts, most of whom tat up the
entire night, in an intermittent
showers, to be early on hand, George
R. Robinson, driving a J 20 horse
power locomobile won the 14th
Vanderbilt cup race today, cresting
the new American record for " road
racing and for the first time lt his
tory of race, gaining a victory for
America. Herbert Lytle at the
wheel of SO horsepower Italian
Isotta car finished second, one min
ute 48 I S seconds behind the win
ner. Owing to overflowing of crowds
upon the grandstand the race was
called off without any of the others
being permitted fficialy to complete
the contest. The race, which was the
most hotly contested in the annala in
sport of this country, brought to-
PACK GIVES HIS VIEWS
o:i electio;
DECLARES NEW YORK IS CER
TAIN TO CARRY BRYAN
TO VICTORY.
NEW YORK, Oct. 24. -National
Chairman Mack authorized a state
ment today in which he claimed the
election of Bryan by a landslide. . He
announced his reports , show i that
Bryan will receive at least 301 elec
toral votes or 59 more than neces
sary to elect. In the course of his
statement he says: V '' '
"In addiction to' the 166 votes of
the solid South, and in this I in
clude Maryland, I am confident
Bryan will carry New 'York, New
Jersey, Connectitcut, Idaho, Mon
tana, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada,
Indiana, Ohio, Delaware, Kansas,
and South Dakota, with total of 301
votes. All over the country there is
a change of 25 to 50 per cent from
Republican vote of 1904 to Bryan."
Mack says there is no longer any
doubt in New York; that the empire
state's vote is assured to Bryan
He says be speaks from information
gained from thorough . canvass and
reports from every county in the
state.
He says Connecticut, the candidate
for governor will carry the state, by
20,000 and has the best chance in
years for winning electoral votes. In
New Jersey there is every reason, he
in
Part of Shingle Cargo Washed
Overboard.
Thought to be First Step Toward
Presidential Chair.
MARSHFIELD, Or., Oct. 24.
While going to sea today the steam
er M. P. Plant was struck by a heavy
sea which caused her to veer and be
fore she could straighten : up five
other breakers struck her, washing
overboard a portion of her dcckload
of shingks. The Plant proceeded out
side where" she anchored. She flew
the signed of "Met accident. Send
boat with haulier,"
The Eureka passed out half 'I an
hour later and stood by the Plant a
few minutes and then proceeded.
Later in the day a steam schooner
north-bound, ran close in and stood
by the riant for quarter of an hour,
afterwards proceeding on her way.
The riant is now lying at anchor
off the bar considerably listed. No
fears are expressed for her safety as
she appears to be riding .....easy"' and.
the weather conditions are favorable.
She will probably be towed back
here in the morning. The Plant had
a number of passengers kbroad in
cluding Captain Emory of the life
saving station 'and Jack Bliss a base
ball player.
RENO, Nc., Oct 24. -Word
comes from New York that W. R.
Hearst will soon take up his resi
dence in Nevada for the alleged pur
pose of becoming a candidate for
United .States Senator in 1910 using
this as a step to the presidency. In
formation js not authoritative but it
has created a sensation here and the
city awaits the appearance of the
editor with an announcement of his
intentions. A New; York dispatch
says his physician's orders '.: are re
sponsible for the change. It is said
that Hearst recently issued orders
to Chairman Cole of the Nevada
branch of the Independence Party
to spend no more money in the campaign.
BRYAN IN NEW YORK.
ELM IRA, N. V, Oct. 24.-Cloaing
the night with a monster demonstra
tion, Colonel Bryan's advent into the
Empire State was auspicious. '"It has
been a red letter day," remarked the
candidate. He was greeted all the
way through the Southern tier by
enormous crowds.
MURDERS ViFE. CHILD
. 0 IBS SUICIDES
SEATTLE HUCKSTER TAKES
THIS ACTION IN PREFER
ENCE TO A DIVORCE.
Smooth
Li iwl ?
$300 cr Probably Here.
EN ARE IN CUSTODY
gether at daybreak 17 ears of which
11 were American, three German. ys' to1 believe the state will be
two French and one Italian. 5 Al-.'he democratic column.
though the time of the winner, 4 1 rt Delaware Mack says he expects
hours 48 1-5 seconds, established a to win for the reason that the peo-
new record, the average srtced was P'e are "Hot after1 resentment of
64 3-10 miles an hour, mere figures P"ty banded with Dupontism,
giving but a faint idea of the magni-1 In Indiana and Ohio, says Mack,
, tude of performance. Not only was every element is working forJ)emo
the course wet and slippery, but an
other and greater element of danger
was the obstruction by the crowds,
which early became unmanageable.
The racers had to open up a line
for themselves by running full tilt
into the mass, which parted just
enough to let them through. After
the first two cars had shot by the
finishing line, the throng broke all
the bonds and swarming into the
roadway, in front of the grandstand,
formed impenetrable wall of human
ity. '
Into, this barrier dashed James
Florida, driving 'a locomobile, but
crattc success deptte the great Re
Publican majorities of previous years.
Mack concedes Illinois doubtful
with chances in Taft's favor
The Tacific Coast states,' Mack
thinks, show democratic claim,' and
the mountain states he declares will
be found in the Democratic column.
Mack also said today that he under
stood that the Republican brganiza
tion had accumulated $3,000,000
which will be used in the debatable
states, "But," he said, "They can
not defeat us with $50,1)00,000."
Mack added that the action af the
(Continued on page 8.)
HEARST BLACKENS
CLEVELAND'S NAME
Edtior flow Accuses Departed cllro of Having
Had, Crooked Dealings With Standard Oil.
JAPANESE OFFICIAL
TOKIO, Oct. 24,-rBaron Yoshiro
Sakatani, who was minister of finance
in the late cabinet, and whose reap
pointment to that post, now admin
istered jointly with the premiership
by Premier Katsura, arrived in To
kio this afternoon. It is believed that
hfs ; appointment will soon be an
nounced.
THE ASTORIA
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liflllY AS IT
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How the Republican Nominee, Samuel Elmore.
Views the Honor and the Responsibility..
STRAIGHTFORWARD STATEOENT III INTERVIEW
Full List of Petitioners for Various Nominations on the City
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wincsai tun ana tna Men in Alignment Are
;'"V: Interestingly Revlswod.
NEW YORK, "Oct, 5 24,-W.- R.'.Mark Hanna. but that it recarded
Hearst read more Standard Oil let- Roosevelt with considerable distrust
ters tonight at two mass meetings.
one in Brooklyn and the other in
Carnegie Hall. Thomas Li Hisgen,
the Independence candidate for
president, Clarence J.' Shcarn, candi
date for governor and others preced
ed Hearst' at Carnegia Hall. In the
course of his address Hearst said th;
Standard Oil Company has been
largely instrumental in deciding ev
ery national election for past 20
years. He said Cleveland was im
ported by it, that it affiliated with
and and dismay. During an address
someone in the audience shouted as
Cleveland's .( name ,, was ' mentioned:
"Don't drag in names of the dead,
let the dead rest in their graves.".
Hearst prefaced the, reading of
letters by bidding the audience fare
well, he said, information has been
conveyed to him that if he will stop
reading the letters now, all will be
forgiven, but if . he continues the
whole power of the ' Standard Oil'
will be exercised against him.
When it bccanie known yesterday
that Samuel Elmore had consented
to permit the use of his name for the
office of Mayor of this city, die was
constantly surrounded with eager
friends who sought to express their
unqualified pleasure in the confirms
tion and to express their purpose 6f
standing closely by him until the
hour popular confirmation should ar
rive.: So the day was practically
given ove; to the matter, of the new
departure and he allowed the course
of business to be diverted in defer
ence to the rush and the pleasure it
brought him; for Samuel Elmore is
frankly conscious of the public de
maud that has been made upon him
and cherishes deeply the kindly in
terest and concern of his fellow
citizens. He is true enough Astorian
to know all it means to him and the
city; and by the time a reporter for
the Morning Astorian , reached him
with a request for an interview, he
was exactly in the humor to express
himself sincerely and gratefully. Mr,
Elmore is not given to elaboration;
his style is instinctly terse and direct
and, in response to the reporter's
request, spoke briefly, as follows: .
it has not been an easy matter
for me fo get my own consent to
enter this particular field of endeav
or, because it entails no little sacri
fice of my business time and inter-
sts; I say this in no spirit of de
precation, for the honor my friends
have done me is profoundly: appre
ciated, but everyone here knows how
wide a range of affairs my office and
business relations cover, and ' they
will understand that .the,- mayoralty
must, of necessity, interfere fo; no
small extent, with ; the course of
that business. .
"I have been here many years; my
record is made and known of all
men; there can be no sort of ambig
uity as to my general attitude on civ
ic affairs in this city, and if any there
be, it will be dissipated as soon as 1 1
cn get down to work in the mayor
alty. I intend to do by the city as I
do by my private concerns, treating
everthing iu a strictly business way
so far as the rules of business shall
apply; and this without bias of any
sort, political, religious or commer
cial. I shall have plans, and see that
they are not carried out in any hap
hazard fashion; they will .be submit
ted to my colleagues in all candor,
for the general good of the city, and
I expect to have them digested and
applied quickly and effectively, upon
that hypothesis; I will not be-run by
politicians, nor factions, nor specious
cliques with specious pleas; what is
done must be for the common inter
est of the taxpayers at all times and
the methods must be open and popu
larly understood in every instance
and connection.
"I shall adhere to the ordinances
arid make them a gospel of success
if, they are amenable to such honest
construction, and if they are inoper
ative, then I shall have them repealed,
amended or , substituted, and all ob
noxious features eliminated , and
their application and use made sure
and easy. There is no idea in mv
mind of posing as a reform mayor;
u any. distinction shall, attach to my
administration (provided I am elect
ed, of course), it will be that of
"business," clean, straight-forward,
simple, and nothing short of that. I
intend to so measure the honor that
is done me in this case that I may nto
fall short in a single thing; that is
my. position, in a sentence, and you
are at liberty to publish this assur
ance With my fullest authority, since
there is nothing I can add that will
further enlighten my fellow-citi
zens.
The Republicans of the city yes
terday completed their nominations
of a ticket for the coming municipal
election. They will put a ticket -in
the field with' Mr. Elmore at the
SEATTLE, Oce24.-A. J. Pat
hurst, a wholesale huckster, who to
day shof his . wife, three-year-old
child and baby, and then fataly shot
himself, died tonight The tragedy
is extremely sensational. The man
and wife quarreled over the hus
band's addiction to liquor.
This morning divorce papers were
served on him. , He took the -whole
family for a day's outing and while
the children were playing on the
grassy slope, Pathurst and his wife
had further words because of her
refusal to withdraw " the divorce
papers, following which he shot Mrs.
Pathurst He turned the weapon on
the child next, and talcing- the baby
up in one hand he fired a shot
through its head. His final act was
to shoot himself. l - - . f
AcSag CMcff 0'Csrg Kakcs Quick
.Work cf ths Capli're cf
.v. the Culprits. -
WORKED A VERY EASY
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Two Men Deposit $133 in Bank
and Draw Checks to Nearly That
Amount ' Then Dssw Larger
Checks and Collect Same.
ENDS, UNDECIDED.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. ' 24.
Pennsylvania and the Carlisle In
dians played each other to a stand-
stil in a football game today, the
final score being six to six. Penn
sylvania scored in the first ten min
utes of the game. In the second
half, Indiana reversed this. In the
first half Pennsylvania had it much
her own way and in the second the
Indians had the best of the argu
ment. : ' .'' '. ;
TAFT .QUITS INDIANA.
GARY, Ind., Oct 24. Three days
of Judge Taft's Indiana campaign
ended tonight and the big Ohian is
now speeding to New York which
is to be the scene of his activity next
week. In the throngs which greeted
Taft all of today in close attention
and cordiality, his third day in the
Hoosier state fully equalled two
which preceded it. The candidate
made 17 speeches during the day.
Two men, who are accused of be
ing smooth workers in their line of
busines, were brought to bay last
night, and as a result probably sev
eral of Astoria's merchants have
been "saved from" being the victims
of their often shown willingness to
cash checks for strang-ers. The trick
has been worked before this in our
city, and it is surprising that the
scheme can be repeated as often as
it is.
Two men entered Astoria a" few
days ago and preceded to do busi
ness immediately. Cards were or
dered printed bearing the imprint
"Astoria Investment Co., Singer &
Kramer, representatives." These
cards were scattered promiscuously
around the city and were used bv the
smooth" men in their business
transactions.
Then business commenced. Singer
went to the Astoria National Bank
and deposited $130 receiving a pass
book showing the deposit, and a
blank check book, which figures ex
tensively in the case. . This book
shows that he went to several mer
chants and purchased goods, mostly
jewelry, in small amounts and issued
checks for same but was careful that
the amounts did not exceed the
amount of the deposit About $128.
50, according to check stubs, was
drawn and no, doubt these checks
were cashed early yesterday which
made the . work of; the conspirators
easy.
Yesterday the duo began the reap
ing of the harvest, and issued checks
(Continued on page 8) . .
JAPAN BIDS FLEET
; : : A FOND MREWELL
ucautifal ar.d Touching Celebration A
Americans by the Japanese People.
hi
(Continued on page 8)
American battleship fleet: departed
from Yokohama at ,8 o'clock, this
(Sunday) morning for Olangapo, P.
I. The day waS beautiful and clear
and the warships passing down the
bay with the Japanese escort pre
sented a fine appearance. There was
not a single deseration from the fleet
while here and the conduct of the
men was remarkably orderly! Presi
dent Roosevelt's message, to Emper
or and Japanese people, thanking
them for the splendid reception 'will
be handed to the Emperor , through
the foreign ofike fo which ft was
presented by Ambassador O'Brien.
The send-off accorded the American
fleet was such a celebration as has
never before been seen or heard of
before in Japan. Earliest daylight '
saw the harbor respendent in color
from a myriad of water ' craft of
every description from the smallest
launches to large steamships which
circled slowJy about the big -warships
laden with crowds gathered to
bid the fleet God-speed. At 7:30
Vice-Minister Foreign Affairs . Nacy
and other Japanese officials steamer
alongside the Connecticut, bearing
farewell of the nation to Admiral
Sperry. These farewells said, Admi
ral Kaito of the 'party -returned to
his flagship and immediately ' after
wards the Connecticut weighed an
chor and after her in single file
came the losig
can ships.
line of o!!n.f Amcri-