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0tf ill j PUBLUtHC PULl AfflOCIAK0 PRKSI ftCPORT 30VCRS THK MORNING PICLO ON THE LOWCR COLUMBIA f 83rd YEAR. NO. 264 u a mo i HI If IIHIIVU . H. Willi TRAGIC DEATH YESTERDAY Was the Son of Veteran - Editor of Louisville. VICTIM OF ACCIDENT Father Osercome With Grief it Hit Home While Telegrams Bearing Newi Arrive. BODY TO BE BROUGHT HOME Voon WilttrMD Palis Prom Office Window on Nineteenth Story to Root of Ttn-Story Building and it Horribly Cnuhed. NEW YORK, Nor. U.-IIarvey w. Wtteron, lawyer, tnd th younger ion. ef Henry Wttttrion, editor ol the Louisville Courier Journal, plunged W death (rom ' the 19th floor of bit office building tt 37 Wall Mreet late thU afternoon, i The body attot downward from a height of 110 feet and landed on the roof of a 10 Vtory building, adjoining. Al mot every bone in hi body wa broken and hi head wat crushed. While there were no witnese to (he tragedy, evidently it wa entirely ac cidental. Watterson' hat and coat were on hi closed desk. Presum ably to lower the window and either tumbling over a radiator which w In front of the low aill, or lolng hit foothold In aome other manner, he pitched forward and fell. Watterson wa 30 year old and married. He wa the junior man of the firm of Wing, Russell & Wattcrion. The body waa removed to the Watterson home after the coroner had declared death due to an accident. The pecu liar feature of the cate wai that Wat- tersont watch and cigarette in one pocket and hit pipe in another were noj oamagea Dy tne tan. Mrs. wat- terson wa prostrated when informed I 01 ncr husband' tragic death. 1 LOUISVILLE, Nov. ll.-The new of the tragic death of Harvey W. Watterson when first communi cated to friends of Henry Watterson, created a profound impression In Louisville and there immediately fol lowed a pathetic little conspiracy having for its purpose the breaking of the new to the veteran editor as gently a possible.' Telephone com munication with his country home four miles from the city wa imme diately stopped and friends deputed to Mr. Benjamin Ridley, widow of the Consul-General to Mexico the: difficult task. Mrs. Ridley, was sud- THE REICHSTAG STILL TURBULENT Emperor Is Receiving Full Stenographic Reports of Proceedings While Guest of Prince. BERLIN, Nov. 11,-An exciting debate in Reichstag was concluded this evening, wit)) .the. .rejection by a majority of the proposition to send to the Emperor ttn address' -'calling his attention "to the danger" of His Majesty' personal intervention in foreign politic. The displeasure ty the house was concentrated princii pally upon Chancellor Von Bulow. Member of several of the groups re fused to accept the chancellor's . ex planation with regard to the Empe ror' interview in the London paper EIISOII HEEIS denly bcraved a few week ago of her husband who had been Walter ton'ft protege and friend and .he ac complished her fniition and tonight the editor i sitting at home benumb ed by grief, while hundred of tele gram from men of national import ance are already pouring in offering condolence and lympathy. J It wa decided by the family that Colonel Watterson will not be able to undertake the Journey to New York nd Mr. Harvey Wattcrion wa asked to bring the body to Louisville which will 'probably be done Friday Or Saturday. Harvey Watterson left no children. Before her marriage, Mr. Wattcrion wa Miss Alice Bur row of New York. .,., , .. IS IE ISSUED FHR ROBIN COOPER WILL BE REMOVED FROM THK HOSPITAL TO JAIL WHEN CONDITION PERMITS SHERIFF BROUGHT IN CASE Ex-Sheriff Sharp Waa Seen With th Cooper Few Minute Before the Shooting and Waa at Scene Imroe- . diately After, iNAbil VILLE, Nov. II. A state warrant charging the murder of Senator Carmack waa served on Robin Cooper today at the hospital and he will be removed to the county jail a noon a his condition permits. One of the chief topics of the con vcrsation today was the alleged pres ence of ex-Sheriff Sharp at or neat the ecnc. The ex-sheri(T wa seen in Arcade with the two Cooper a few minute before the killing and wa een to leave there with' them, and wat aeen with them at Union and Fifth avenues. It was up Union ave nue that the Coopers came when they met Carmack at Seventh street. A cording to the statement of Mrs. El cn Morean. who aw Carmack fall. Sharp' wai at the scene of the killing within a few moment after it oc curred. ROOSEVELT AS USUAL. WASHINGTON, Nov.:il.-A dis cusston wnicn ha arisen , over the dinner President Roosevelt Is to give in the White House next Tuesday to a number of labor leaders brought forth from the executive office today an official statement pointing out that the dinner it not an official one and declining to discuss the omission of at a satisfactory offering of guaran tees' for "the future,' but when the proposition' of addressing the Emper or "formally" on the subject war put to the house, the government major ity did not hesitate to vote against it." Von 'Bulow1 listened all afternoon to the attacks on himself and though he' had been expected to speak again today he refrained from doing so. ' It was said today that the Emperor was receiving a full stenographic report of the proceedings at Poniulesching en, where he Is the guest of Prince Furestenburg," ' " ' Vice-President O'Connell, Secretary Treasurer Lennon of Federation of Labor. Morrison and the American "It would of coure be absurd to take any notice,' me iiatemcnt conclude, "to the di.cu.tion a to who ihould or should not be invited to a dinner by the rresldenl." DIVIDENDS DECLARED, NEW YORK, Nov. 11-The direc tor of the Southern Pacific Com pany today declared a regular quar terly dividend of 1) per cent on the common ttock and a regular semi annual dividend of 3 per cent on the preferred tock. The Union Pa- cific director declared a rr0t1l.11- quarterly dividend of 21 per cent on the common stock. SHOOT YARDMASTER. CHICAGO, Nov. ll.-Yardmaster C Burton was found In the Wabash railway yard early today with a bul let wound in hi head, and died later in the hospital to which he was tak en. It is believed he. was shot by freight car robbers. TWO MONTHS IN AUGUSTA. AUGUSTA, Ca., Nov. ll.-Assur-ance were received by wire today that President elect Taft will arrive here. December IS for a couple of month' ttay. EMPEROR THREATENS. THE HAGUE, Nov. II. Tho Va- derland publishes an extract from the memoirs of an unnamed diplomat who assert that during the Russo- Japanese war the German Emperor wrote. to Queen Wilhclmina of'TTotJ land threatening the occupation of Dutch ports unless Holland imme diately put herself In a state of de fense against Great Britain.' ARE t'ORRYINO ABO PLAITS SUCCESSOR NO ONE AS YET HAS A CLEAR RUN FOR THE COVETED POSITION OF HONOR. WOODRUFF HAS AMBITIONS Chairman Hitchcock Had Confer ence With the President But he Would Not Admit That the Sena torship Waa Discussed. WASHINGTON, Nov. 11. -That no man at this time has a clear path to the seat in the United Stats Sen ate to be vacated by Senator Piatt of New York in March was evidenced today at several conferences on the subject at the White House and it, Washington hotels. For several days it has appeared that if Secretary of State RoOt decided to become an ac tive candidate other aspirants would withdraw. Timothy Woodruff, who has had ambitions td become senator for several years, has not assented to the program for eliminating all can didates except Root. Persons well informed concerning New York pol icies asserted tonight that Woodruff has within, his power the making of very embarrassing senatorial cam paign. Chairman Hitchcock . had a conference with the President to night but would not admit that the New York Senatorshlp had been dis cussed. ' SUIT POSTPONED. , PARIS, Nov. 11 The suit of Count Bdni de Castellahe against his former wife, who is now: Princess Hclie de Sagan, for the possession of his children has been postponed for another week. JUSTICE FULLER DEAD. nPIERRE, S. D., Nov. 11. Justice Howar'd G." Fuller, of the State Su preme Court, died today after a lin gering illness. Pre.ldcnl Compere, ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12. FISH DO MEET HI SEATTLE Fisheries Commission Op poses Federal Control STATES CAN GOVERN H. S. McGowan Elected Chair manjand Miller Freeman Secretary. SAL0MN MEN INTERESTED Henry O'Malley U. S. Superintend ent of Fisheries, H. C, McAlliter, Oregon Fish Warden, and F. A. Seufert Are In Attendance. SEATTLE, Nov. lt-Tbe Wash ington State Fisheries Commission appointed last spring by Governor Mead tonight placed itself on record as opposed to the federal control of the fisheries in the State of Washing ton. The matter wa brought before the commission in executive session and the members voted in the nega tive, saying that the state is fully capable of controlling the fisheries without government interference. H. S. McGowan was elected chair man and Miller Freeman, secretary of the commission. Men prominent in the fishing' industry from all parts of the northwest are in attendance, among them being Henry O'Malley, United States superintendent of fish eries in Oregon; H. C. McAllister, master fish warden of Oregon, and F. A. Seufert, of The Dalles. FEDERATION MEETING. LA GRANDE, Or., Nov. ll.-The arrival today of Mrs. Abgail Scott Dunway and Mrs. Ferris, of Port land, gave new life to the convention of Women' Clubs generally. The day followed the program explicitly. WANT DUTY REMOVED. NEW YORK, Nov. 11. Believing that the recent call for hearings on tariff revision now gomft on at Washington, does not mention hides, interests represented by the National Shoe Manufacturers' Association and importers of hides and leather have joined forces with the intention of demanding a hearing before the ways and means committee of the house of representatives. These in terest further assert that the re moval of the duty on hides has been live issue for a long time and that they are being discriminated against through Western meat packers. Sev- erar conferences have just been held here and in Boston with 'the result that a committee will be "sent" to Washington to appear before " the committee. Data has been prepared which will be furnished the commit tee showing that shoe dealers and makers are compelled to pay a high price for. the finished product. .; KIDNAPPER CAUGHT.. ! SEATTLE, Npv. 11. In a farm house owned ' by David Foy on the south shore of Bitter Lake, five miles north of Seattle, tired, footworn and made desperate by the pursuit of the po&'Se from Mount Vernon,1 Leo Bez e'mef,' alias "Whistling Rufus," was taken, by 'surprise,, asleep, and 'cap tured this morning at 3 o'clock by Deputy Sheriffs J. W. Wheeler, Joe Hill and Steve Meek. He is now in the Kink county jail. Bezemer kid napped a wealthy logger named E. English, forced him' to sign a $5000 demand for ransom arid then tied him to a tree. Sheriff Harmon, of Skagit county, offered a reward of $500 for the capture. ' ' " ' : ' ' ' ' - I I WOMAN DYNAMITER. P1TTSFIELD, Mass, Nov. 11. It developed today that Mr, Allen Reed, who is unoer arrest in Den ver for attempting to extorftnoncy trom Mrs. Genevieve Chandler Pfcipps, is the daughter of the late George Campbell, of this city. About four year ago, when she and Allen F. Reed were married, she wa nurse in this city and she left the House of Mercy Training School for Nurses to go West with Mr. Retd Mrs. Reed and her husband left Pittsfield for Denver the day on which, they were married. Mrs. Reed had been in this city several times since, the last visit lasting from Oc tober 22 to October 26. While here, Mrs. Reed exhibited some valuable pieces of jewelry to her friends and seemed to be bountifully supplied with money. When she was here she appeared to be in good health. Friends in this cityq remembered to day that about, four years ago she had a serious illness in connection with which some symptoms of men A ... . tai oerangement ot a time were noted. :" '"'"' ' A NOBLE GIFT. NEW YORK, Nov, 1 1. -A memor ial stained window has been siven to Plymouth church, Brooklyn, by tora nortncime, the British news paper owner, who is now in this country. Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hilhs, pastor of the church, in mafc ing the announcement , of the gift, said it was really one to the Ameri- can people, inasmuch is Lord North' cliffe reminded him (Dr. Hillis) that Americans gave a memorial window to the church at Stratford-on-Avon and were planning to place a tablet in Westminster Abbey in memory ol James Russell Lowell. The window will be one of a serierppresentine ine innuence of Fbntanisra on Democracy and Liberty in America." SAN FRANCISCO TO DO WARSHIP BUILDING DEAL MADE WHEREBY STEEL TRUST WILL CONTROL DRY DOCKS THERE. NOW OWN UNION IRONWORKS Schwab Refuses to State Whether the Union Iron Works Will Bid on Battleship Construction But Cir cumstances Indicate That it Will SAN. FRANCISCO, Nov. 11, Charles M. Schwab, president of the T-LI-1 . T ... ... Dciiiicuem iron worxs wnicn con trols the Union Iron Works of this city, announced today that the steel company has purchased a controlling interest in the . San Francisco Dry dock Company, which owns two big docks at Hunter's Point within San Francisco Bay as well as a number of floating docks for small vessels Schwab said that the docks would be combined with the Union Iron Works into a vast repaid establish ment capable of handling marine work of any magnitude. The amount of the deal involved was not made public further than Schwab's state ment that it would run into several millions. Schwab refused to state whether the purchase meant that the Union Iron Works would bid on bat tleship construction; SUICIDE THROUGH GRIEF. BELLINGHAM, Wash., Nov. 11. As a culmination of ill health and nervous 'strain brought on-by 'grief over the death of her daughter," Mrs. Andrew Williams, wife '"of. .Sheriff Williams, of Whatcom county, to night shot and killed herself while in the gun room of the county court house ' ' '' !J,:' v ORENFELL DOUBTS. ST. ALBANS, Vt., Nov. ll.-Dr. Willard T. Grenfell, the noted Lab ' ; i FIVE CENTS DCRllRY firf ii'mwm p.r,,wrv,,f",,i 11- in, gtfjiLkiiuL.1 IDAHO, CAUSES TlllE rador medical missionary and explor er, when shown a dispatch to the effect that Andree's body had been found, said he did not believe there wa any truth in the statement He says that he was at Conception Bay, New Toundland, late in. October and nothing waa known about the finding of the body then. - IS NOT DUNHAM. ; SAN JOSE. Cal., Nov. 11. -Wil liam Hatfield, who. was arrested in Texas as James C. Dunham, the slayer of the McGlincy family, was liberated after a preliminary exami nation during which -23 out of 24 witnesses testified that Hatfield was not Dunham. . ' , . '.. . TARIFF REFORM TALK BEFORE COOMITTEE UNUSUAL SITUATION CAUSED BY ACTIONS OF DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS. ARGUMENTS ARE TECHNICAL Baryte the Principal Subject of Dis cussion Yesterday Democrats Fa vor Increase in Duty While Re publicans Oppose Protection. WASHINGTON, Nov, 11. -That the Democratic members of the house on the ways and means com mittee are favoring an increase in the rate of duty and the Republican members are opposing a protective tariff on Baryte, an article listed in schedule "A" of tariff was an un usual situation today. The subject of baryte had been discussed by sever al speakers, when one of the speak ers alluded to the deposits of metal in North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and Tennesse. Representative Po-j of North Carolina told the speaker that if he could show that the mining of baryte was made unprofitable be cause of the prevailing tariff he could depend on the support of the Demo cratic members. On the other hand the Republican members of the com mittee apparently desired to bring out the fact that no higher duty is needed. Arguments today were in the main technical and in favor of the retention of ' the present rates of duty'"'-:."-"". "V! -.' ; ; - - FOOTBALL GAMES. CORVALLIS. Or., Nov. ll.-Ore- gon Agricultural College 9, Whit man 1. '' " r- v LAMPHERE ISI Brother of Last Known Arrives in LaPorte to Testify. LA PORTE, Ind., Nov. 11. A. K Helgelin, brother of Andrew Helge lin, last known victim of Mrs. Gun- ness arrived here today to testify for the prosecution in the case against Roy Lamphere. Through him Prose cutor Smith will introduce, a number of letters received from Mrs. Gun ness while Helgelin was endeavoring to find.trace of his brother. In thes letters, which were written by Mrs. Gunness while Helgelin's dismem bered body lay in her private grave yard, are many references to Lam- Inhere and to his jealousy of Helgelin By SUSPECTED ARRESTED One Dead and One Seriously in jured is the Record of . Authorities. CULPRIT ADMITTED TO BAIL Taft, Montana, Suffers Fire Loss ol $100,000 in Which the Town is Wiped Out One Life Lost sad One Injured. WALLACE, Idaho, Nov. ll.-The death of James Banters, the serious injury of Elsie Lreondeau and the attempt to lynch a man thought to be the incendiary by a crowd of in furiated townspeople,' were the lead ing features of a fire which early to day destroyed the town of Taft, Mont The loss is $100,000; insur ance, ?oO,(XXJ, This is the second time in three months, that the town has been destroyed. The fire first broke out about ten o'clock last night in the Arcade theatre build ing.. It was promptly extinguished but broke out again in the same place about 4 o'clock this morning with a fury that defied the efforts of the fire brigade. Soon the whole village waf in flames. . As far as learned 15 build ings, 12 of which were saloons, were destroyed. The people of Taft .were under the impression that a gambler named Green had set the fires out of spite at the owners . of the Arcade theatre and demonstrations against this man reached such proportions that it is alleged that the authorities were forced to remove him to Wal lace to prevent a lynching. During the fire Banters, porter of the Spo kane hotel, was burned to death, and the Lreondeau girl was seriously in jured by "jumping from, the second story window of the Arcade theatre. Several other girls in this building had narrow escapes. With the avowed purpose of lynch ing Green a crowd of citizens made a demonstration on the jail here .to night in which the alleged incendiary was. 'confined,. Fearing that the build ing would not withstand the attack, Green was hastily' admitted to bail in the", sum pf $1000,; .and- .upon : this amount being furnished he was giv en .an opportunity to secret himself, presuniably'in the 'hills. CASE Victim of Ors. Guinness because Helgelin had been a guest at her home. The prosecution con siders that it has strong evidence to prove the theory that Lemphere was jealous of Hegelin because he thought he had been supplanted by him in the widow's affections, assisted in pu ting him out ' of the way and after wards became revenged upon her by Setting fire to the house. . With ten jurors tentatively accepted by both sides the court adjourned until to morrow in , order that the fourth special venire be summoned. To date 87 veniremen had been examined. Lynching Prevented Action of Officers.