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33rd YEAH. NO. 250
ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, CCTGDEH 27. 1CC3
TAFT STARTS ACTIVE CEIPII!-
1 IH THE EMPIRE STATE
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LOLIULU UMM I JiiilO UUU
BID 1D.IIE AT All
Candidate Addresses Dig
Crowds of New Yorkers.
SEES EVENING PARADE
Rain Threatened the Night Pro
gramme but at Last f'ement
, the Skies Clear. ,
HONORED GUEST AT DINNER
TudM Dinsa With Hundred Promt
nent Republicans at Banquet Given
by Chairman Woodruff, Speake at
Academy of Muaic
NEW YORK. Oct. 2S.-Devoting
the day to a trip into Connecticut
and the evening n speech-making
in Brooklyn. Judge TaU'i first day
of active campaigning on hi present
visit to .this jseetion was carried on
with vinor and earnestness. While
th day, despite Us call for a speech
of some length in New Haven and a
shorter one at Port Chester was one
of comparative ease, calls that were
mad UDon Taft upon him in Brook
lyn tonight were such as to keep
him actively occupied every moment.
When he entered that portion of
New York late this afternoon he
found himself fairly overwhelmed
with engagements. Before the night
was over he had accomplished five
tiDeeches, eaten dinner with a hun
drcd prominent Republicans as the
guest of State Chairman Woodruff
and reviewed the parade. The de
luge of rain which broke loose just
about the time Taft was entering
Brooklyn threatened for a time to in
tcrfcre with the evening's parade.
The rainfall ceased however, some
time before the parade was schedul
ed to start and that feature was car
ried out with all elaborateness plan
ned. Similarly successful were the
meetings of the night, particularly at
Clermont Rink and the Academy of
Music where Taft made his princi
pal addresses.
able timberland in New Mexico.
These were rot the propertyof the
government. After an investigation
Sherman and hit friends turned the
proposition down because they did
not think the investment would be
profitable, half the money was re
turned and the company disbanded.
What the other did afterward, Sher
man says he doei not know.
STILL MISSING.
TACOMA. Oct. 26.-Today ended
the ilxth day of continuous work in
the mountains near Hot Springs am!
no trace of Fred Kloeber has been
discovered. '
BRYAI1 IS KISSED BY
LADY AD01BERS
of nil
GEM IS 111 FAVOR III WE ; SLAVE
Will Csntlnw With Austria fur
Peaceful Solution.
BERLIN, Oct. 26,-Semi-official
news agencies summarizes the re
sults of the conference of the Rus
sian and foreign ministery Iswolsky
and Chancellor Von Buelow as fol
lows: Germany has no 'objection in
the principle to the proposed inter
national , conference, Both govern
ments believe a conference can prove
useful only in the case of complete
agreement of all signatories of the
Berlin treaty as to its scope and con
tents of program to be submitted
Germany will not accept the pro
posals to which Austria objects.
Both governments will continue
to defend the peaceful solution Of all
difficulties.
ACT OP TWO IMPULSIVE
WOMEN AT WALDO Kr-Aa-ASTORIA
DINNER.
SPEAKS AT MADiCC:! SQUARE
At Patterson the Candidate Address
es Large Crowd For Twenty Min
utes During a Heavy Downpour of
Rain. "
A GOSPEL LAUNCH. A
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26.-A
60- foot auxiliary gasoline , schooner
is to spread the gospel in the South
Seas. The vessel, just completed
and launched, is named the Hiram
Bingham, and is intended for the use
of the missionaries of the Gilbert
Islands, where travel by water is an
important essential to efficiency.
The schooner will sail for the islands
next week. At tha time of the
launching she was blessed by a clcr
gyman and consecrated to the work.
TRAFFIC KILLED
17. C. T. U. Convention Give Day
to Adoption ct Hepcrt3.
DENVER, Oct. 26.-The sessions
of the W. C. T. U. convention were
given over today to the adoption of
reports and resolutions. Resolutions
reaffirming uniterating belief in total
abstinence, declare the prohibition of
every man wiping out traffic in in
toxicating liquors; demand constitu
tional amendment providing for pro
hibition; endorse woman suffrage;
single standard of morals for men
and women and the wiping out of
the so-called "White Slave Traffic,"
cxnress regret at the continued inac
tion by congress on the Littlefield
bill; demands prohibition in the Dis
trict of Columbia' and protests
aeainst the use of the national flag
as an emblem of "Personal liberty
league."
PRESIDENT IS 53 TODAY.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. -To
morrow wil be the 50th anniversary
of President Roosevelt's birth. He
will not take a day off to celebrate
the occasion but will be hard at
work at- his office. No celebration
has been planned so fa ras is known,
but something in the nature of a sur
prise may be sprung on the Presi
dent by Mrs. Roosevelt, probably i:i
the nature of a dinner party.
$50,000 DISAPPEARED.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24.-The
only development of the day in the
city treasury as a shortage of $60,000
having mysteriously disappeared,
was the placing of a specific charge
of having raised the value of a check
from (60S to $5605 against James C,
Tomalty, formerly bookkeeper in the
city treasurer's office. Tomalty is
UU in jail, npt having secured the
$30,000" bail to secure his release.
SHERMAN DENIES.
UTICA,' Nr ., Oct 26-Before leav
ing this afternoon to; resume his
speaking tour throughout the state,
Tames S. Sherman gave out a state
ment denying the charges published
in New, York World that Sherman
had been involved in an attempted
leal in timberlands ia New Mexico.
Sherman says some years ago he,
with a party of other business men
put up $6000 to" investigate What had
been represented to them to be valu
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN,
New York, Oct. 26.-At the close of
a trying day a day of out-door
speaking in the drenching rain, of
fast flying trips by automobile and
special train of receptions and for
mal dinners and of three big evening
meetings in different sections of the
city, Colonel Bryan address in Madi
son Square Garden tonight the most
notable gathering of his three cam
paigns. '' ;
The great oval amphitheatre of the
garden held 'an immense throng
limited only by its vast capacity be
sides a disappointed waiting line
several blocks in length.
The candidate began his long day
with a dash through the mud and
rain to Patterson, N. J., in an auto
mobile. He spoke in the downpour
for 20 minutes and like thousands of
the audience, was drenched to the
skin. Returning to the city he was
the guest at a reception at the
Woman's Democratic . Club at the
Waldorf Astoria ' Hotel where two
impulsive ladies threw their arms
about Bryan and kissed him. Next
he made a flying trip through Win
chester county. On returning to
New York, Bryan was the guest of
honor at a reception and dinner at
the Democratic Club. .Then he be
gan the evening tour which took him
to Hamilton Fish . Park, Cooper
Union, Palm Garden and thence to
the Madison Square Garden.
TOLD MORSE HE HAD
"BUSTED THE BANK"
AililD i!(ES SIATEtlEHT 10
All TO HEARST ClIAUGE
Brings Ceremony to Llclo
Dramatic Climax.
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PORTLAKDHI
GET COLD FEE!
AFTER SHOOTING BARTEND'
ER TO ROB SALOON, GET
SCARED AND RUN.
IS ONLY SLIGHTLY I Nil F.ED
RETURNS INS CHILD
Discarded Wc.T.an Cares fcr Ccy
for Four Years Cut Cilks
When Suitor r.!2rri;s.
Charles Reagan, a Chicago Banker,
is Doubled-Crossed Wife Goes
Home; Ho Leaves City For Un
known Destination With the Child.
Denies Editor's Intimation That He Had Written
Him Regarding Stolen Letters.
ELK III EXPLAINS RELATIONS WITH ARCHBOLD
Says tha Letter of Twombly Referred to Coal Lands In Which He
Was interested and Asked ArchbDla for Letter to Kan
Road Oificiats Which He Did Net Use.
Former Vice-President Lee Makes Startling State
ment in the Curtis Trial at New York.
, NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-Aftcr the
. admission of the testimony of John
' W. Gates, Judge Morgan, J. O'Brien,
Charles M. Schwab, John H. Flagler,
and W. F .llaycmeyer to expect that
as directors of the National Bank of
North America they never authoriz
ed the honoring of overdrafts of C.
W. Morse'and had never known the
. existence of such practice, the prose
cution late today rested the case in
the federal court against Morse and
his fellow defendant, A. If. Curtis,
who is being tried for alleged viola
tion of national banking laws.
Not the ' least sensation of today
was the declaration made by former
vice-president of the bank, W. W.
Lee, that on the day , of the collapse
Curtis said to him, "I have just told
Morse that he has 'Buster the bank'."
NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-John D.i
Archbold made a statement today
regarding the letters read by Hearst
at Carnegie Hall Saturday. He says
he is sure neitheV Judge Morrison
nor Henderson knew Archbold had
written Governor Stone in their be
half. He also says Henderson was
not appointed until three years after
the letter and then by Governor
Pennypacker. Archbold states if any
word of his could have influenced
the appointment of these gentlemen
he would be very proud of it because
the state has no better servants than
they. He says his letters to Elkins
referred entirely to contributions to
the Republican state committee then
engaged in the campaign prclimbar
McKinley's nomination, "A subject
regarding which I should think Mr.
Hearst would be a little sensitive for
was it not the election and tragic
death of McKinley that came near
costing Hearst his precious neck?"
Archbold says the . statement re
garding Judge Hait is an old explod
ed libel which be would not weary
.... . 'u . - .' ' tr.
the public by again going over, xie
announces Hearst's intimation that
Hearst has had communication from
him rcgaridng the stolen letters, "is
a' lie.",. A..' ."
"The only favor," concludes Arch
bold, "which I would ask or hope to
ask of Hearst is that he return to
me letters handed him' by his larcen
ous , gentleman friend which were
written from Japan relating. to fa
tal' illness of my daughter in that
country.
he cannot recalt the incident.
PITTSBURG, Oct. 26.-Justice J
P. Elkin of the supreme court of
Pennsylvania, who up to this time
has entered in only a general denial
of improper relations with John D.
Archbold as inferentially charged by
Hearst. Saturday presented a detail
ed statement to the Associated Press
tonight in which he explains that the
letter to Twombly referred to coal
lands in which Elkin was interested
in Western Pennsylvania. Elkin and
his friends had learned that the New
York Central was about to build
through these lands and he asked
Archbold, whom Elkin says he had
known since Archbold was a young
man. for a letter to some official of
the railroad system referred to,
which was done. Elkin said it turn
ed out that he had no occasion to
use the letter and he did not know
and never met Twombley. Two other
ktters, which Elkin says were mani
festly intended to infer that money
enclosed was to secure the defeat of
certain legislation contained enclos
ures for political purposes.
Elkin savs there was no session of
the' legislature that year., The next
'letter, upon which Elkin says re
liance is placed to hitch all these
matters together with a suggestion
of improper use of money in influ
encing legislation, was written 18
months after' the Twombley letter
and a year and three months after
the other two and could have no ref
erence to any legislative matter
pending at that time. Elkin says it
was a letter of inquiry which he as
sumes was received by him although
Fred Grubbhel is Shot When he Re
fused to Throw up His Hands at
Robbers Command Offenders
' Have Not Been Caught
PORTLAND, Oct 26. -Two
masked highwaymen entered a sa
loon at 204 Taylor street, this city
shortly after midnight tonight and
ordered Fred Grubbhel, the bartend
er, to throw up his hands. Grubbhel
refused and one of the robbers fired,
hitting the bartender in the leg and
inflicting a flesh wound. Without
further effort at robbing the place
the men turned and ran. They have
not been captured.
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NIGHT RIDERS BROUGHT IN.
CAMP NEMO, Reel Foot Lake,
Tenn., Oct. 26. Fourteen prisoners
were brought into camp today in
connection with the recent night
rider outrages in this section. This
makes a total of 61 now in custody
here. Three mounted scouting par
ties went out and two returned. The
third will not be back before tomor
row night.
CHICAGO. Oct. 26.-A dispatch .
to the Tribune from Fall River,
Mass., says: '
Like the climax in a drama was
the revenge of a discarded woman
at the wedding of her suitor and her
rival here yesterday. The marriage
of Charles J. Reagan, banker, and
Miss Mary B. Chadwick was the so
cial event of the season. The church
was fiUedJ .-mth friends. After. . the
ceremony, the bride and members of
ftn wrHilinc nartv started dewn the
aisle as the wedding march was play
ed. A closely veiled jvomen, clad in
black, arose, picked up a 4-year-old
boy and held him out to Mr. Reagan.
"Stop, Charles Reagan," she cried.
"Miss Miss Sullivan!" gasped
Reagan. .
"Yes, it is I," answered the wom
an. "Here he is. Here is your child.
I've taken care of him for four years.
Now you must take him you and
your wife." .
The woman turned and walked
out The bride fainted and friends
were horror-stricken. Reagan stood
alone in the chuith aisle, holding in
his arms the baby who was crying
for his mother. When the bride re
vived she returned to her home alone.
Mr. Reagan left town last evening
refusing to make known his destina
tion. He took the child with him.
ARTILLERYMEN MISSING.
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 26. Arrange
ments are being made tonight to
send a boat to look for the four
members of the 28th Coast Artillery
and army mechanics from San Fran
cisco. Five men left for Coronado
Islands yesterday morning on a fish
ing cruise were expecting to return
last night. They have not been seen
since. ." - ' . - V
FLEETS POSITION.
TOKIO, Oct. 26. A wireless from
the Atlantic fleet says at 7;30 this
(Tuesday) morning the fleet's posi
tion is 37 deg. north latitude and
134 deg. 38 min. east longitude. At
9 o'clock Emery's squadron left the
fleet and headed for Arnoy. ,
JEWELRY AND BUTLER GONE.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26.
The police are' looking for George
eMtcalf, a butler, who disappeared
with jewelry valued at $2000 as well
886 in cash from the home of Mrs.
E. G. Hopper yesterday.
DIG UP $5,000 OR
HAVE EARS GUT OFF
Robber Forces Ot. Vernon 'Han to Pake Note for
Money But He Escapes and With His Ears.
BELLINGHAM, Wash., Oct. 26.
A special from Mount Vernon says
that while driving from his lumber
camp to Mount Vernon, Edward
English, a prominent lumberman of
Mount Vernon, was held up and
kidnapped by a lone robber three
miles from town. The' robber forced
English to make a note for $5000,
and to write to his wife begging her
to secure $5000 from the., 'bank and
telling her if she does not do( so by
tomorrow noon, his ears will be cut
off. The note was handed to Mrs.
English who claimed to have receiv
ed it while coming into town. The
bandit left his captive tied to a tree,
evidently intending to return in the
morning to see if the ransom was
forthcoming. English, however, man
aged to escape and made his way to
a; iatmhouse nearby where he tele
phoned to his wife and to Sheriff
Harmon. The sheriff sent out his
deputies in an effort to secure the
bandit.