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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1908)
11 S EMRY m wm to u m TE iffil QPPlfP P AI'fAV 1 fl Hi II Hit H i I! cei::g irnnr 1TITUTF''L liVlilUltbiiilii i IKIII Hi! '1 a , m ii' L m k. ll.Uil. w FLEDOE M npnTfin ui lltSILiJ 0 U Homo of Ivan P. Leo De stroyed But Fiona Hurt. HO F.IOTiVE FOR CRIL1E Thought t3 tz Act of .Kt!;M:n Who Objected to Erec tlan of Darn. REVOLVER SHOT ALSO HEARD i Immediately After Explosion Pistol Show Wero Heard Report of De tonation is . Heard For Mile i Around. SEATTLE, Oct. 29.-Shortly be fore midnight the residence of Ivan P. Lee, 3(19 Nye Place, two mi! from the busines section, was wreck ed by an explosion of dynamite. The property it badly damaged but none of the occupant j of the home were injured , although Mrs. Nye and six children deeping fn the rooms up stairs. Fred Edmunds, standing in iront ot me residence was 5 not at a distance of 20 feet, but escaped in jury, Lee is a reputable business man, and say he cannot ascribe a motive for' the crime; although he has been involved in litigation ; of late and his neighbors are (aid to have protested against the construc tion of a stable on hi property. Four revolver shots were heard immedi ately after the explosion. Reports of the explosiori was heard in the busi ness section 'of Seattle. Residences occupied by the police department in the vicinity of the Lee home were slightly damaged. ' LAND FRAUDERS CONVICTED. PORTLAND. Oct. 29.-Dr. J. II. Hcdderly, William II. Smith and Richard D. Hines, three of the de fendants in the so-called "Los An geles fraud" were convicted by the jury in the United States District Court this evening. Lee R. Myers and Jeremiah Huntly were acquitted. FLEET DIVIDED. Eight "Battleships Arrive at Amoy Balance Proceed to Manila, AMOY, Oct. 29 Eight battleships of the Atlantic squadron under com mand of Admiral Emery, arrived here this morning after an unevent ful voyage ' from Yokohama. Six teen ships of the' fleet left Yokohama MORE CERTAIN AS . : FIGHT ADVANCES Leaders Receive Estimates from Throughout the Country Shcv.ing Strong Republican Tendency. NEW YORK, Oct. 29.-Represcn-tative Ludcnslagcr, secretary of. the Republican congressional committee, who has been in charge of the head quarters at New York today, gave out his estimate ; of, the complexion of the house of representatives in the 61st congress. He says from several thousand letters received and front tiiTsnna! interviews with observers in all sections ot, the. country he be lieves it will . .be; 227 '-Republicans 'and '164 Democrats. He is confident there together Sunday but divided into two squadrons when two days out. The first under command of Admiral Sperry, going to Manila and the other coming here. The squadrons will join forces again November 4th at Manila. China wil welcome the visitors with unbounded enthusiasm. Preparations to this end. . are com plete and nil Chinese of exalted rank wil 'take part In the festivities. TUFT STILL 111 THROUGH mv YORK IS STRONG. AFTER HEAVY " CAMPAIGNING WHICH 13 HEARING AN END. CSV HUSHES IS COr..,V.ENDED Crowds And Demonstration! Great the Presidential Candidate! at AH ' Pointa Visited" by Him Yester day. SYRACUSE, N. Y., Oct. 29. -Republican seers have, sounded in the wake of the Taft special which today visited Lyons, Canadaiugt, Geneva, Seneca Falls and Auburn. The cli max was reached in this city tonight with a big parade, two meetings and an overflow. There has been no lack of auditors and demonstrations wherecver the Ohioan has tarried. Despite the heavy campaigning re quired of him yesterday in New York he showed little effect of the strain today. " r , He was hot at the hoofs of what he considers Democratic fallacies in every speech and has been free 'n expressing his optimism as to the result on next Tuesday. Governor Hughes has been commended in strong language, likewise the re mainder of the New York State tick et and the vice-presidential candi date. Judge Taft has had a rival at traction here tonight of Mr. Bryan whose special car) was at the station when the Taft train arrived. Judge Taft's arguments today have been pointed with new phrases and illus trated with new comparisons. At Lyons in the first speech of the day he asserted that the defeat in 1896 of the silver heresy was a victory for good exceeded only by that of the army in the civil war. 1 His next ex tended effort was at Canadaigua where he went into an analysis of the government through the political parties. At Geneva his speech was devoted largely to labor. ' ' 1 J will be an increase rather than a 'decrease of Republicans.. ' Chairman Hitchcock said he will probably give out his forecast of the electoral vote tomorrow afternoon. The statement is doubtful as well as certain states, for both parties. Hitch cock is still of the opinion that Ne vada will be very close, lie is con fident of Montana and says there is a fighting chance in Kentucky and Tennessee. He thinks Maryland will be close but that it will go Republi can. ' Frisco Strk Csts l.uho f..2n $ Mcr.cy at fcca Tr::k. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 29. -If. II. Lage, a farmer from Winona, Idaho, attempted suicide here today. Lage, when removed to the hospital, declared he" came ' here for medical treatment. He met a man who promised to stake $2fX), virtually all the farmer possessed on a race. The stranger and Logc's money " disap peared and illness and the loss of his money made him despondent. COMMENDS PRESIDENT. Union Printer Approves 'Roosevelt's Reply To Goropers, WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. -John Stuart, a union printer of Philadel phia, has written President Roose velt commending him for the Presi dent's reply to Gompers. Stuart says until recently he has been an admir er of Compers but his "Recent erra tic course has caused me to turn with disapproval from his foolish at tempt to turn organized labor aaginst the Republican standard bearer, W. H. Taft." Stuart asserts that two-thirds of organized labor will be found supporting ' Taft for the presidency. DEATHS IN FIRE. NEW YORK. Oct. 29. -Hemmed in by flames and unable to escape from the basement of a business house on Duane street, two men were burned to death this evening and a third was fatally injured. BASEBALL GAMES. Los Angeles 1, Portland 7. ! Oakland-San Francisco game call ed on account of rain. mm OSGIIAIIOI PROJECl Secretary William Reid Eliminated. froii the Enter prise as One Result of the Receivership. BONDS OF THE COMPANY SOLD III LOIIDOr Receiver Warner end Engineer - Yesterday, Cenferring With the '., &nd Departed for Portland There are very strong, even flat tering, prospects for the early , re organization, and subsequent com pletion of the Oregon Seaeoast Rail way, better known as the "Reid" line, from Clatsop City into the Ne halcm country, and thence east to Portland, via Hillsboro. Messrs. C. H. Warner, the newly appointed receiver of the system and business, with 11. Hawgood, of Los Angeles, the chief engineer of the company, was in the city yesterday, in close conference with J. Q. A. Bowlby, of the company's legal staff, departing tor rortiand on tne even ing train. They reviewed the situa tion at this end of the road very thoroughly and fully determined its status before their departure. The elimination of Secretary Wil liam Reid may have relieved the con ditions somwhat; at all events there is no question now, in the minds of these gentlemen, that the original plans and scope of the project are to be again " undertaken and prose cuted to a finish. This is good news for Astoria and all this section, and it is backed by the ampler certainty that the bonds of the company have been sold on the London market, and Are Net Ccmp:!!:d fa Vets for hphr Candidas. . BI5MARK, N. D., Oct. 29.-M em bers of the North Dakota legislature will not be compelled to carry out their pledges to vote for the success ful candidate at the primary sena torial election Tuesday. The Supreme Court loday decided unconstitutional the pledge feature of the primary law as if relates to the popular elec tion of United States Senators. The court however upholds the provision of the law providing for- holding a primary for the selection of a pop ular choice for Senator. ; . . RETURNS EN ROUTE. Travellers On Illinois Central To Be Given Election Bulletins. CHICAGO, Oct. 29.-A scheme to give election returns on trains Tues day night has been devised by the managements of the Illinois Centra! and Rock Island systems. These bul letins will be posted in and distri cted tkroBgi all passenger cars and sleepers on every through train over the entire railroad. The plan provides for special telegraphic service through agents and the figures will be given to conductors at every stopping int . This is the first time that an ela borate arrangement for informing travelers of the results of a national election will have been executed. .- CORTELYOU SPEAKS. . NEW YORK, Oct. 29.-Secretary Cortelyou addressed a large and en thusiastic mass meeting.' at Murray Hill Lvceum .tonitrht, making a plea for the election of W. H. Taft and the entire Republican ticket. b uuui ill Kr:;;?cd Spent i.3 Cay h A:!orii Company's Attorney Here, Leaving Assurances Eehln the recent action instituted in federal circuit court at Portland as against MV. Reid, in adjudication of the $50, 000 transaction for which he was re sponsible and which precipitated the receivership and divested him of all further. interest in the enterprise, has cleared the project of its only grave impediment and given new impetus to its fulfilment. The cheerful assurance was left by the gentlemen referred to that the re-organization of the company would be effected in the course of a very few months, and that thereafter the new company will build to tide water at Astoria and to the Nehalem, as quickly as men and money can accomplish it. There is said to be plenty of mon ey in sight for the thorough investi ture of this long-deferred enterprise and that it is at last in hands that mean something; but just whose hands these be, is yet among the re mote and unguessable problems that surround all railway projects espec ially in their earlier stages. x Astoria has no need to worry over the pro prietorship of the line so long as it shall be built, and quickly; and the quicker, the better. ( ASTORIAN APPOINTED. Otto Ileilborn I ected on Executive Commitf ; of Assistant Postmasters. ALBANY, Or., Oct. 29.-The as sistant postrristt-rs of Oregon form ed an association here today. The following ofi cers were elected: President, i'rank M. Powell, Al bany; vicepre ident, John J. Shipley, Portland; secretary, J. H. Farrar, Salem; trcas- rer, F. A. Page, Eu gene; execu ive committee: II. B. Ross, Pendleton; Otto Ileilborn, As toria; Lyman D. McKee, Ashland. The Association will meet Feb ruary 22 of each year. The 1909 meet'tig to be held at Salem. KSSFfMillTIO OFrOlE ll!M DIRECTS ARGUMENTS TO THE WORKINGMEN AND UNION ISTS IN NEW YORK. KCHE LETTEC3 !?J EV1DEHCE Letters Allejei ts Have Been Writ- ten If Archbold to the Late W. J. Sewell Were Read by the LMItor Last Night ; '; , ;"...,..''.' NEW YORK. Oct. 29. -Arguments directed to the workingmen and trade unionists, arraigning -, the Republican and Democratic parties were made by a speech delivered by W. R. Hearst in Cooper Union to night for the Independence League. Two letters from J. D. Archbold to the late W. J. Sewell, United States District Attorney for New Jersey, bearing on what Hearst called indif ference of Representative Gardner, chairman of the house committee on labor to "Demands of the plain everyday workingmen," figured in the speech and in two other letters which he said were written by Audi tor King of the Democratic national committee to D. M1. Parry, president of the Manufacturers' Association and to John T. Maxwell, Barry's sec retary. Hearst said the letter to Parry congratulated him on his re election as president of that associa tion and on the adoption by the as sociation of Parry's "Anti-Labor Union policies." The letter to Max- j well, Hearst said, referred to a fight of the association against the Inter- natienal Typographic Union and the onslaughts of Whit worth Col against the eight-hour bill in con- lege here yesterday and was defeat- gress. ' " '- " 1 IS Question 'Brought Up in ... ...Evidence Given NEW YORK, Oct. 29.Elijah W. Sells, cousin of Mrs. Katherine Clemmons Gould and a distant rela tive of her husband, Howard Gould, gave testimony in the Gould divorce proceedings before the referee today. Sells is going abroad and for this reason Justice Bishoff Ordered his hearing now. Sells testified to his part in trying to arrange means by which the parties to the present suit could live harmoniously. One of the stipulations of Gould's however, was that his wife should abstain from the Has Been Under Heavy Guard Several Days. VIOLEHCE VMS FEABED Scritsr Freely Confesses fa t!":3 Kicapprcpriatisn cf the Bank's Funds, ' . SPECULATION KOT THE CAUSE Claims to Have Used the Money to S tt tix Sank Lut Does Hot plaii in u t Manner he Did So. PORTLAND, Oct. W.-SpiriteJ away fro;n La Gran'ie because of the numerous threats cf lynching which Deputy United States Marshal Hain mersley says he heard, J W. Scrihcr nnder arrest for misappropriating the funds cf the Farmers & Traders' Kwc Bank of La Grande as fcrougnt to i'ortiana tonight, is hours ahead of the scheduled ti.ne by Deputy Hammersley. Hammers ley. Hammersley says that in or !i.-r to avert a possibiSit of violence, the Sheriff of Union county has had Scriber nnder heavy, guard for sev eral days. Scriber freely confesses die mi-appropriation of the funds of the bank. He talked freely of the charge against him tonight, and assumed all responsibility. He declared, however "They cannot find I appropriated any cf the money to my own use, speculated with any of it or squan dered one cent of it. It all went in an effort to save the back." The ex-cashier did not, howe er, explain in what manner he disposed of the bank's funds or what he meant by his allusion to his effort to save the bank. ' . . THOMPSON WHIPS UNIIOLZ. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. .-Cyclone Thompson practicaly knocked out Rudolph Unholu, the "Fighting Boer," in the eleventh. round of a scheduled "20-round contest tonight. WHITWORTH WINS. TACOMA, Oct. 29. Whitman College of Walla Walla, fell before td from that game. limit? Gould Diverce ' .Case in By a Withess. ,. v . rise of liquor. Mrs. Gould refused Gould's conditions. On this point the attorney for Gould wanted to know how much wine he thought the lady should drink. Sells replied that Mrs. Gould drank only as much as a lady should. "Well, what is a lady's limit?" "Well, I should say the limit for a lady is about a pint of champaign at dinner." On' re-direct examination Sells de clared he has never seen evidences in Mrs. Gould's demeanor that she had hi r drinking to excess.