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y V., J-tJ H&f'i PUtLltHCS rULl AtVOCIArCO PRESS RCPORT SOVCB8 rnt MORNING fICLO ON THX LOWER COLUMBIA neat ,. 33rd YEAR. NO. 263 I '-EDM PllfflIT TAKES THE GiT If,' Strongly Criticizes Empe ror and His Court. - ; -,. . . . r . Alt PVAITIIIA OArilf m is . r Alii i Hill - . r" ta r Contest Between Crown tnd Parliament That May Pi o duce a Change. VON eULOW MAKES ADDRESS i Dsbat in tb RelchaUg Concerning Conversations Published With Per mission of Emperor William Pro vokes Criticism of Many. BERLIN, Nov. 10.-F.mperor Wil II m hn never been 10 severely Judged by bit parliament it h was -i uui tira i uc ucuiii Ml bub ncnuiiiH " r- on Interpellation concerning eon- . wrtIoifeifftbed w'lli the nerrols t'ilon of '-i&-4lspe-rtwin",h ' London Dally Telegraph, October 2Sth. The criticisms of Ilia Majesty's court, hit minUtera and hla treatment of men II well at bit freedom of. apeech i went to lengths that aatoniihed ob aervers acquainted with the tradi tional caution of the chamber in deal ing with the personality of the aov erelgn, And the Emperor teemed to : have no defenders. Chancellor Voo Bulow made an address lasting IS minutes, but lacked bit initial spirit and a person high in hit confidence ia authority for the statement that he alto told the Emperor that neither himself nor his successors could re nsin In office unless His Majesty was more reserved. The Prince spoke i solemnly and without making use of i any dramatic efforts. The House re I celved his explanation in icy silence instead of giving It that cordial ap- plause which as a general thing fol lows the Chancetlor'i "Mine parlia mentlary declarations. I Conservatives representing the largely landed nobility are almost as relentless as the socialists, radicals and national liberals and today's pro ceedings are regarded by the extreme liberals as the beginning of a long contest between the crown and par liament that may end In Germany having the mnlstry responsible to parliament and not to the crown alone. ! "- NEW WARSHIP LAUNCHED. QUINCY, Ma"sZ Nov. 10,-The most powerful addition which thj American navy haa received, a first class alt around big gun battleship, the North Dakota, was successfully launched today from the yard of the with the foam of christening wine NIGHT RIDERS ARE STILL Incendiary Fire and Fatal Stabbing Has Wrought Community of Sherbourne, Kentucky. LEXINGTON, Ken., Nov. 10,-As 'a result of an incendiary fire destroy ing the drug store and" office of Dr, iMcClure at Sherburne last night, one man is under arrest, another probab , :ly fatally stabbed and the community so wrought up that rioting is expect ed. Captain Mullikcn received a mes sage from Sherburne early today i urging him to come with blood ITS TEETH Tore River Shipbuilding Company streaming down her bow from a DotUe smashed by Miss Mary Benton Of Fargon. The North Dakota floated into the basin, about 60 per cent com pleted. Sometime next summer she will be turned over to the Bovrrnmrnt for acceptance and if she fulfills the test will , go Into commission next September. SENATOR CULLOM ON TARIFF WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.-Scn tor Cullom who was a caller at the White House today declared that the revision of the tariff will be deposed of at the extra session to be called shortly after March 4. i Senator Cul lom said that he favored reduction of the tariff on a number of articles Mich as iron and steel. CONVICTION UPHELD. OLYMPIA, Nov. 10-The supreme court today upheld the conviction' of Frank Brigham under sentence of death for killing his wife November 1907, In Lewis county. The de fense was lnnit, REVISION OF TARIFF IS BEFORE COFJLIITTEE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS HEAR STATE MENTS FEW INCREASES ASKED FOR TJts Hearings Are Preliminary to the Taking up of the Tariff Question at the Coming Extra Session of Congress. . WASHINGTON, Nov. lQ.-With but few exceptions the interests af fected by schedule "A" of the Ding Icy tariff which includes over a hun dred articles under the heading of Chemicals, Oils and Paints, do not desire any changes in the rates of duty now operative. This was indi cated today at the first hearing for consideration for a revision of the tariff held before the house commit tee on ways and means. The hearings are preliminary to the taking up of the question at the extra session tf Congress. There were few requests for increases in the present rates of 0uty. A strong advocate of lower tariff was Albert Plant, who drafted the schedule for medicinal chemicals for the Wilson bill. Plaut said the duties are now practically prohibi tive. He recommended that ' many chemicals now paying 125 per cent ad valorem should be reduced 15 per cent. In addition he recommended nine for Instance, which now come in WORKING hounds. He went and detectives took J up the trail at the Sluirburne build ings and followed it to the home of Harry Morgan, who he placed under arrest. Mulliken was accompanied by L. G, Daugherty, whose barns were destroyed by night riders last spring. As Mulliken was leaving the house with Daugherty and had Morgan un der arrest young Harry Morgan stab bed Daugherty twice. ' that on certain other chemicals mil free of duty, that there should be placed a duty of IS per cent. N. D Arnold, representing the varni&h maufacturers said that the varnish manufacturers are perfectly satisfied with existing conditions. Answering the queition of a Democratic mem ber of the committee, Arnold admit ted that varniih manufacturers do not need protection on alcohol var nih and thought a reduction of duty from 35 to 25 per cent would be fair, Arnold denied that a surplus production is offered on foreisn mar kefs by American manufacturers at less than the price demanded in home markets, ' LAMPHERE-CUNNESS CASE. LA PORTE, Ind- Nov. lO.-The trial of Ray Lamphere, charged with the murder of Mrs. Bella Gunness and'her children came to an abrupt halt this afternoon when the second special venire had been exhausted without a jury having been obtained. Judge Rjchter ordered a third venire, the members of which must be ready for examination tomorrow. With the adjournment of court today ten jur or wer in the box. The defense to day made public some of the new evidence in its possession, the princi pal feature being testimony to the effect that a man and woman drove into the Cunneis yard after the house burned and the woman, who it said to have resembled Mrs. Gunness, said: "The money ain't here." WILL ARBITRATE FIRST. PARIS, Nov. lO.-The latest ad vices from Berlin state that there is every reason to believe that a satis factory solution of existing difficul ties it at last in sight. According to the dispatches Germany now appears to have decided upon the acceptance of France's suggestion that the af fair be submitted to an arbitration court, both with regard to the facts and the international law governing such cases. , 2NE8NE SCENES AT NASHVILLE DEPOT BODY OF SENATOR CARMACK REMOVED TO COLUMBIA FOR BURIAL THERE. COL COOPER UNDER ARREST Carmack's Friends Assert That the Coopers Had Previously Determin ed to Attack the Senator-Police Are Investigating the Case. NASHVILLE, Nov. 10-The body of former Senator Carmack was sent to Columbia this afternoon. Impres sive scenes at Union Station marked the departure. The members of the W. C. T. C, whose cause Carmack had ably championed gathered at the station and as the casket was being borne in joined in singing hymns. A brief funeral sermon - was delivered by Rev. Ira Landruth. The funeral party reached Columbia about 4 o'clock and was met by a large con course of friends. The body was taken to the Carmack home where the funeral service will be held to morrow. Robin J. Cooper, who fired the fatal shot and who is under ar rest at the local hospital is doing well but Ms physicians say the wound is in a dangerous place and complica tions are not unlikely. Colonel Coop er, who was with his son when the shooting occurred was transferred from police headquartera to jail to day, He had nothing to say. . The friends of Carmack are loud in con demnation of the Coopers and the "Tennesseean," of which Carmack was editor, this morning both editor ially and in its news columns made an unqualified charge of murder. The police ' are ' investigating numerous stories which have gained circulation among Carmack's friends cited as tending to show that the Cooper's had fireviously determined to attack Carmack and were searching for him when the shooting occurred. ASTORIA, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11. 190& STANDARD OIL 118 PUT Rehearing Denied in Big Rebating Case. IS QUITE A SET BACK Decision in U. S. Court of Ap peals in Fine Case Against the Government TO SUPREME COURT NEXT The Decision Was Rendered bv Judges Grosscup, Baker and Sea man and Sustains Former Ruling of U. S. District Court on Appeal CHICAGO, Nov! 10.-The United States court of appeals here today denied a rehearing in the case of the government against the Standard Oil Company, in which the fine of $29,240,000 was assessed , by Judge The dentil ts another defeat for the government in the famous case, and according to the counsel lot the gov ernment. Is a hard blow for the inter state commerce act. 1 The decision was rendered by Judges Grosscup, Baker and Seaman and sustains the former ruling re manding the case to the United States district court for retrial. ' " It is believed that Attorney-Gen eral Bonaparte will take the case be fore the supreme court of the United States on a writ of certiorari. This was the second time the United States circuit court of appeals had acted in this case. The case was originally taken to the appellate court by the Standard Oil Company, after Judge K. Ms Landis, in the district court, had fined the company $29, 240,000, following a trial replete with sensations. A jury in Judge Landis' court had found the Standard Oil guilty of ac cepting rebates from the Chicago & Alton railroad. The oil company had beer; indicted by two special federal grand juries on 6423 counts, charging violations of the Elkins anti-trust law," which prohibits the granting or acceptance of rebates on oil or other products. MR. CANNON HAPPY. Has an Old Time Jollification With His Home Friends. CHICAGO, Nov. 10.-r"Uncle Joe" Cannon came to town and had an old-time with the advertisers at the Old Time Home Week ' Corn stalks and pumpkins, surrounded by men in jumpers and jeans, Speaker Cannon cut loose and helped whoop it up for prosperity. "Your Uncle Joe", who certainly never was in finer fettle, proceeded in limpid Biblical speech to touch Up all the public men, issues and institutions that seemed to re quire attention, and then to cap the climax, drew an imaginary . bow across imaginary fiddlestrings while he sang the refrain of an "old fashion ed country song. .. The speaker had fired a shot at Rockefeller and two shots at Bryan and had run the gamut several times from politices to poetry when, gazing with '. misty eyes on the pumpkins and the cornstalks ' he dropped into a -rhapsody of the farm days of an other generation. In -rythmic prose he sketched a picture of. a bobsled crowded with boys and girls beneath Buffalo robes, speeding over the snowy rooads to the cabin of a dis tant farmer, there to trip the lancers and moncytmisk : all night on the puncheon floor. . "How well I still can hear the voice of the fiddler, now dead and gone, for the fiddlers sang as well ss played in these old days," ex claimed Uncle Joe. "How well I can hear him tingfng that old song: O, Lee, Lee, Lo, O, Lee, Lee, Lo. My Dear Honey, Lee, Lee, Lo, O, Lee, Lee, Lo. I love you more than money. ' CONFESSION RECORDS. Phonograph Being Put To Good Use in Yindy City. CHICACO, Nov. 10,-That trrue- some figure of speech, "Listening to a voice from the grave," has become a startling reality. y Any unbeliever to verifv this state ment has only to visit the office of Coroner Hoffman sometime in the near future and hear the voices of murderers making their last denials or detailed confessions, after they have paid the penalty for their mis deeds. These voices of the dead are to become a portion of the county rec ords. ' They will take their olace among the musty files of the coron er's office and when necessary may be used in court. The verbal state ment of a man who is dead seldom finds its way into court, except as repeated by another, but this is one of the promises of the new system. The phonographs already have been used in one important murder ease. that of Mrs. Fannie Thompson, who was strangled in a Michigan Avenue rooming house. The . story of Luman C. Mann, ac cused of being the mysterious Ray mond; who rented the room in which the woman was murdered, has been transferred to one of the records and may be heard amona- the other voices which the coroner is preserv ing in phonographs. I , SALOME PROTESTED. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 10.-A vigorous protest was entered by the ministers of this city yesterday against the production here of Rich ard Straus' Opera, "Salome" by Os car Hammerstein at the Philadelphia Opera House; The Baptist and Methodist pastors, at the weekly ministerial meetings, adopted resolu tions protesting against the present ation of the opera and decided to appeal to Mr. Hammerstein. HO Mill Ai mom iit FOUR PERSONS KILLED AND ONE INJURED ATTEMPT ING TO CROSS TRACKS CHAUFFEUR SLIGHTLY DEAF The Engineer Saw the Danger Too Late to Stop Momentum of Train 14-Year-Old Girl Haa Narrow Es cape -From Death. RED BLUFF, Cal Nov. 10-Four persons were instantly killed and a young girl waa injured near here today when a special train bearing division officials of the Southern Pacific crashed into an automobile at the crossing of the railroad and high way. The victims were all occupants of a touring car and were hurled 200 feet through the air. The dead are: George K. Wulard, wife and daugh ter, Miss Olive, and Mrs. Irene Hays of Wallace, San Joaquin county, Cal, Imogene, the 14-year-old daughter of Willard was found clinging to the cow-catcher badly bruised and cut but otherwise unhurt. Willard, who is 80 years old and a retired mer chant, is slightly deaf, and as he was at the wheel the accident is attribut ed to this affliction. Willard no doubt saw the special but thought he could dash across in front of it. The en gineer saw the danger but too late to stop. As soon as the train stop ped the railroad officials .hurried back to the scene of the disaster and the bodies were gathered up and put aboard the train. PnilHT 7CDDCI III UUUHI Z.LI 1 LLlli rap eii SERIOUS CHARGES. NEW YORK, Nov. lO.-What was asserted to be the practical maroon ing of 3000 men in the wild regions of Florida and their detention at hard labor for a period of several months waa dealt with at length today before Judge Hough and : a jury in the United States Circuit Court in the course of the government's Cass against the employes and agents of Henry M. ' Flagler's Florida East Coast aRilroad for an alleged viola tion of the Statute prohiibting peon age slavery and enforced servitude. The prosecution in its outline, of the case alleged that the men had been allured to Florida by promises " of high wages. It asserts they were fed on nothing but stale bread and bo logna sausage, and that when they refused to work or attempted to es cape they were brutally beaten. KAUFMAN WINS FIGHT. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 10.-A1 Kaufman knocked out Terry Mustain in the 14th round of 25-round fight tonight EX- Biimrn Mfinnr ia a AIl.uK LUitUL 10 fl WIEITEO III BAIL REFUSED BY U. S. COURT - OF APPEALS WHICH SUS- I TAINS TRIAL JUDGE. HOPEFUL OF HIS RELEASE . . . v Judge Hough Gives as Reason For Kaunng Bail the Fact That Morse Was Worth $22,000,000 and the Crime Not Extraditable, NEW YORK, Nov. 10. Bail was denied O W. Morse, who has been sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment at hard labor, at the closing of the United States circuit court of appeals today and it now seems certain that the former multi-millionaire must re main in the Tombs Prison at least until December J next, when the ar gument on a writ of error that has been granted him may come up. The judges stated briefly that as the trial judge had refused to admit him to! bail, the reviewing judges were not prepared on , papers - submitted to make any other disposition of the motion. Morse had been hopeful of gaining his release from the Tombs today and the denial of bail came as a hard blow. ' Judge Hough gave as his reason for raising the bail that as the offense was not extraditable and j ling is carried on to be nuisances, as the prisoner was worth $22,000,000 ( The offense is punishable by $1000 it would be easy for hira to provide fine and the abatement of the nuis bail through a bonding company. ance. . - PRESIDENT ELECT MEETS HITCHCOCK During Enjoyable Interview National Chairman In forms Taft No Promises Were Uziz. HOT SPRINGS, Va., Nov. 10.- Jutlge Taft. and National Chaiman Hitchcock held a long pleasant chat today over many phases of the cam paign. It was the first opportunity for such an extended and cordial ex change of views and at its conclusion both expressed pleasure at the inter view. Chairman Hitchcock said he had the pleasure Of informing , Taft that the campaign had been conduct ed so far as he was concerned with price m 10 llfl'if III 10 HUi.UaLL nil - The Order cf tho Black Eagls is Coafcrrel A ROYAL ENTHUSIAST Splendid Series cf ?,"sr.3Usrs Are Witnessed! fey th3 Ger man f'onarch. EMOTION CVEr.CCI'ES CCUMT After Viewing Airship Maneuvers th Emperor Embraces Count Zeppelin and Calls Out "Long Live Count ZepperHn, Conqueror cf the A Sri" friederichshafen. Nov. 10. -EPor William, after witnessing I the splendid series of maneuvers by the Zeppelin airship today, personal ly conferred on Count Zeppelin th order of the Black Esgle, the ' ,hest Prussian decoration.- Some e... -.j;- "' tion had been entertained that tL Emperor himself would be one of the ' airship's passengers but huucud Prince Von Fuerstenberg. who fcas been the Emperor's traveling com panion lately took his place in the car. When the Count returned from jhis flight, the Emperor personally congratulated him and said: I "As a token of my appreciation, I confer upon you the exalted order of the Black Eagle." Here the Emperor hung the chain of the order around the Count's neck and said: "And now, my dear Count, permit me on the spot te confer unofficially the accolade." The Emperor then embraced the Count thrice and called out "Long live His Excellency, Count Zeppelin, conqueror of the! air. Hurrah !" The little ceremony which was quite impromptu was cheered by an enthusiastic cowd. The Count was Overcome with emotion.' POOL SELLING UNLAWFUL. OLYMPIA, Nov. tO-Selling pools and maintaining a betting ring at the racetracks is unlawful and is pro hibited by the law which prohibits the maitenance of a nuisance. Re versing the decision of the superior court of Pierce county, the supreme court today held that pool selling is gambling within the meaning of the statute declaring places where sramb- out giving a single promise or pledge which, would bind Taft i,s president, cither in exchange for per sonal service in campaign or for contribution i. The national chairman said that the campaign fund winch he is to make public in a few .1 ;ys was smaller in its aggregate thnn any similar fund since a record of ich funds has been kept and that it a collected from every Stole in the Union and represented a wl.ivr ii-i-tribtition of support than Jv.rr hci.,f..