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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.
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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.