The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930, November 18, 1908, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextJfteriig Oil rtvll V w s w v T HIsUISHtt PULl AVtOOIATCO PRIII ftCPORT "0VCR9THK MORNING flKi.0 ONTHK LOWER COLUMBIA '', pe:ce five cents 83rd YEAR. NO. 269 ASTORIA, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 10C3 UUEF'S TRIAL WILL BE RESUMED DESPITE OBJEGTEONS I -. DORANDO IS HERE. Judge Lawler Rules Again st Change of Venue NO FURTHER DELAYS Court Holds that Neither Ruef i or His Attorneys are . Threatened . EJECTED FROM COURT ROOM All TtchnkaUtlct W Brushed AsUt and tbt Judgs Declares That Tbara is Nothing That Shows De fendant Cannot Gtt Fair Trial SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 17. Tb trial of Abraham Ruef will b resumed tomorrow morning where It halted last Friday when Heney wai loot Judga Lawlor today de nied the application of Ruef for change of venue, denied the motion for a continuance of 30 days, denied motion for the. dismissal of the Jury and the entpanclment of a new one and finally ruled againit de feme'a request for leave to Interro gate the juron to find out whether any had been Influenced against the defendant by Friday's tragedy. Brushing all these motions and technicalities aside, the court an nounced that the trial will proceed tomorrow morning and that it would countenance no further delays. The action of the court followed the filing of 37 counter affidavits by the prosecution which in general terms denied many of the allegations made br Ruef and his counsel in their affidavits yesterday in support of their aoolicstlon for a change of venue and set forth that no excite ment or turbulance prevailed; that neither Ruef nor his attorneys were threatened with violence or their lives endangered and finally that no conditions existed which would pre vent defendant having a fair and In partial trial. The only Incident of the day was the ejection from the courtroom of R. A, Adams, before the court convened this morning. Adams had taken a seat directlv behind Ruef and was said to be cursing and threatening him. Dep uty Doud declared that he recognia ed Adams as the man who had fol lowed the patrol wagon bearing Ruef for some distance yesterday. Counsel for Ruef will resume the examination of ex-Supervisor Gal lagher tomorrow. , Subscribe to the Morning Astorlan, EIGHT CONVICTS BURNED TO DEATH Birmingham Prisoners Set Fire to Mine Hoping ) to Escape During Confusion-One Missing BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 17, Fifty state convicts employed in a mine at Pratt City formed a conspiracy last night to set Mine' No. 3 afire and escape during the confusion. As a result eight were burned to death, one is missing and the other 41 are s"cly"'locked in the stockade. The pile of timbers lying in the mainway was ignited and the convicts hoped that when attention was being at tracted to the flames they could make their way out of the mine and NEW YORK, Nov. 17.-Dorando, the Italian runner, who was , dis qualified after being assisted across the tape during the Marathon race at the Olympic games, and who ar rives In New York today for a re running of the event, with John Hayes, the victor, will complete his training at 1 Columbia University. Princeton University, it is said offer ed the little Italian the privilege to use the track, but Columbia being nearer at hand, he decided to remain in New York. Hayes is training at a nearby park. i BRYiniRU FOUR YEARS HENCE BUT WILL NOT DECIDE QUES TION. UNTIL THE TIME COMES TO ACT. IS ON HIS WAY TO MEXICO Democratic Leader la Not Discour aged at to Future of Democratic Party Evades Questions Regard big Him at U. 5. Senator. ., . SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 17. -"My friends do not require me to preju dice my future and I shall not take the advice of my opponents on this subject. I shall continue to write and speak In defense of the things I believe to be good for the American people. I hope it will never become necessary for me to run for office again, but I will not attempt to de cide that question until the time comes to act. I don't see any neces sity to say more on the question." -In reply to direct question, "Will you run for the presidency if it seems to warrant It?" W. J. Bryan dictated the foregoing statement to night "0, I am not at all discour aged as to the future of the Demo cratic party. There must be a Demo cratic party In every country and T want our party to be Democratic and I have no doubt the country will see the necessity for adopting the reforms advocated by the Demo cratic party. It is already a great educational force and I have no doubt the country will see the necessity for adopting the reforms advocated by the Democratic party, and I have no doubt that con ditions will make the voters turn to it as the best instrument for the ac complishment of "necessary re forms." "Will you allow yourself to be elected United States Senator from Nebraska?" he was asked. "They do not elect a senator this escape. They appear to have mis calculated for nine of them appear to have been suffocated and the others while endeavoring to leave, ran Into the arms of the guards. which had been placed to watch the exits owing to suspicion that the fire had been set, All the free laborers In the mine appear to have escaped. In check ing over the prison lists tonight only one man was found missing and it is not known whether he perished or made his escape, year," he said, "but they do two years from now," he was reminded. Bryan's only response was that he had said all he cared to. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan are en route to Mexico. WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS. CHICAGO, Nov. 17.-Tbe great est victory in the history of 40 years agitation for equal suffrage in Illi nois was won yesterday. .The char ter committee by a vote of 6 to 4 adopted a resolution introduced by Alderman Milton J. Foreman, de claring for a bill giving women the riuht to vote for all municipal offices and on all questions of policy which have to do with the municipality. The bill will be drafted by the committees, submitted to the Chi cago Charter convention, and, if ap proved, will go to the Legislature. Like the charter, it will be subject to adoption by popular vote before go ing Into effect SOLACE CHANGED. WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. -Act ing Secretary Newberry yesterday announced that the transport Solace now at Magdalena Bay would be converted Into a hosptial ship of the first class and attached to the At lantic fleet. The supply ship Rain bow will be sent to Mare Island and converted into a mother ship for submarines, v BALLOON SCARE. PARIS, Nov. 17. A morning pa per states that the French govern ment Is alarmed at the. increasing number of balloons manned by Ger man officers which have been de scending in France recently and have been making diplomatic rep resentations to Berlin on this sub ject. Continuing, the paper says that these representations so far have proved In vain and that France is considering the question of taking rigorous steps to stop what is term ed a "Veritable peril.' EMPEROR WILLIAM IS FORCED TO YIELD PROMISES IN FUTURE NOT TO ACT EXCEPT THROUGH THE CHANCELLOR VON BUELOVY WOULD RESIGN The Whole Country Waited to Hear From the Palace as to the Em peror's Action Great Change Manifested Toward Him. BERLIN, Nov. 17 Forced by the angry tide of the popular feeling that swept the Empire from end to end, Emperor William yielded today and promised henceforth to conform to the constitutional methods of con ducting the policies of Germany. An interview between the Emperor and the imperial chancellor took place at Potsdam this morning and at Its conclusion the Emperor made a for mal promise to his people that in the future he will not act except through the chancellor and his associate min isters. ' Prince Von Buelow had de termined upon handing in his resig nation if the Emperor had not met the country's demand, but as such a situation has not developed the au dience' ended with the Emperor say ing to the Imperior Chancellor that he reposed full confidence in his wi$ dom. The whole country had wait d with breathless suspense from the palace. So great has been the change of Germans toward their soveic'Ign i-i the last few days that a crowd of some 1500 that had gathered at the church to attend the funeral of the late General Huelin-Haesslcr at which the Emperor and Empress were present, being unaware of the result of the audience, greeted their majesties almost in silence. At the audience today, Von Bulow told the Emperor that , he bore a mandate of the rules of Bavaria, Wnrtemburg, Saxony and Baden, the most powerful of the states out- HIE ROOSEVELT LABOR DIIIIIER A Hlost Interesting Event at White House LABOR LEADERS TALK President Asks Many Questions, as to Labor's Demands From Congress WANTS A FULL EXPRESSION i An Impression Prevailed That the President's Next Message to Con gress Will Show Some Points of the Conference. WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.-Mem-bers of the cabinet and justices of the supreme court of the United States sat down tonight with labor leaders from various sections of the United States at a dinner given by President Roosevelt at the White House to a number of personal friends and men dosely identified with the movement to better labor conditions in this country. The oc casion was one of the most inter esting events that has occurred at the White House in months. During the dinner, Roosevelt sub jected his guests to a rapid fire of questions in an endeavor to learn what labor wanted from congress and in what way he could be of as sistance to the toilers of the coun try. While the president did not commit himself to any propositions submitted by the various labor lead ers, it was learned he sought a full expression of the sentiment from all sides. A general impression pre vailed .amongthe labor leaders af ter the dinner that the president's message to congress would show some of the flavor of the conference. The labor leaders talked without re serve and were free to reiterate their pronounced attitude on some ques tions to which congress in the past has turned a deaf ear. What seemed the most significant of all, both to the president and other government officials was a suggestion that con gress pass a bill of rights into which all labor legislation should be in corporated and should create a pub licity board, whose purpose would be to investigate - and make public details of controversies between cap ital and labor. Although many of the speakers expressed their opposi tion to boycotts and sympathetic strikes, they urged that congress should better define the injunction power of the courts and asked for a modification of both this act and the Sherman anti-trust law. They also wished congress to define the exact status of labor organizations in gen erat and whether they should be to "solicit peacefully."- ' side of Prussia to communicate to His Majesty in collective hope that he be more reticent In the future. The chancellor also said this was the opinion of the whole Prussian cabinet and that since the meeting of the Reichstag members without regard to party had received im mense quantities of correspondence approving the Parliament's position. Von Bulow said the feeling' of the country appeared to be well nigh unanimous. CANADIAN PACIFIC WRECK VANCOUVER. B. C, Nov, 17.- Three trainmen are dead as a resuh of a freight wreck on the Canadian Pacific near Lytton this morning, The locomotive and three cars are lvin at the bottom of 40-foot em bankment a mass of tangled wreck aged. The accident was caused by a washout. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17. In the effort to establish more clearly the motive of Morris Haas, the re jected Ruef trial juror who shot and seriously wounded Prosecutor Fran cis J. Heney last Friday, the police have renewed their examination of Mrs. Hiram Cobn, the friend and neighbor to whom Haas confided his intention of killing - the officer who had exposed his criminal rec ord. Questioned at length regarding her various conversations , with the suicide, Mrs. Cohn stated that Haas had several times threatened suicide and announced that he would take another life when he killed himself. On one occasion he declared, she said, that he was going -to kill bis wife and their four children: At all times, Mrs. Cohn testified, she at tempted to dissuade him from bis homicidal purposes. One of the questions asked was: "Did Haas ever say that anybody was encouraging or advising him to kill Mr. Heneyr To this Mrs. Cohn replied: "No, not in the least. He said In an offhand manner, however: 'I met people and they say they are sorry for me and they fel that he ought to be fixed and all that. They don't say it in plain words, but actions speak plainer than words. , They mean if they were me they would take the law in their own hands'." It is expected that the examina tion begun by the police will be tak en up by Special Agent W. H. Burna of the district attorney's of fice. The inquest over the body of Haas will be held Thursday or Fri day, the day following the funeral. Today the coroner will arrange for a demonstration, in the presence of police officials and others, to deter mine whether or not the Derringer with which Haas killed himself could be hidden in bis shoe as the police affirm. ' In Judge Lawlor's court the prose cution, strengthened since the shoot ing of Heney by the services of three volunteers from the legal ranks of the city, will present their answer to RuePs motion for a change of venue for hi strial on a charge of bribery. FREfl PEOPLE III FREE SCHOOLS DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST THE AUTHORITIES CON TINUE DESPITE POLICE AMERICAN FLAG IS CHEERED School Masters Who Opened Free Schools Are Arrested and Fined $200 Each. This Action Rouses Populace to Fury. ST. PIERRE, Nov. 17 A demon stration against the authorities which began here yesterday was continued tody. The police force was unable to maintain order but thus far no serious damage has been done. The manifestation is largely due to the school question, the' people demand ing free schools. Two school mas ters were arrested and fined ?ZUU each fr violating the laws in con ducting free schools and the author ities ordered the schools closed This action inflamed " the populace whirh assembled in the streets and denounced the French gorornment, Some one obtained an American. flag and with it the crowd marched to the government headquarters where a noisy demonstration occurixu..- ST. JOHN, N. Y., Nov. .-Dispatches from St. Pierre tonight say that the situation there is serious. It i understood that should violence be attempted the British warship Brilliant, now in St. John wil be sent to the French town. France has no warship nearer than Brest and the West Indias. Dispatches say the crowd which marched to the gov ernment house also visited the Am erican consulate and cheered the United States. The belief is held that should the French government refuse to re-consider its action, the annexation party will endeavor to induce the United States to pur chase the colony. SECOIID PIlilH ECI OTHER GfMflD SUCCESS TAFT AT HOT SPRINGS. President-Elect Planning a Trip to Cuba in February. CINCINNATI, Nov. .-Presi dent-elect Taft left tonight for Hot Springs, Va. He says he has not seen a poltician nor has he discuss ed any political questions since he came to Cincinnati He came to transact some private business. Judge Taft is planning a trip to Cuba early in February to witness the relinquishment of American au thority and inauguration of the new island government VICIOUS ASSAULT M 101 BEACH, CAL. MRS. FOARD OP THAT CITY IS FOUND BOUND AND GAG GED IN HER HOME. ROBBERY SUPPOSED MOTIVE Bloodhounds Act Strangely When Brought to Scent of Crime One Man Arrested and Held Pending Investigation of Affair. LONG BEACH, Caf., Nov. 17. -Long Beach was stirred to its (tenths todav when the news was snread broadcast that Mrs. J. D. Foard, aged SO, was assaulted, bound and gagged and left half dead at her home in the suburbs of this city in broad daylight today. Her husband was absent and when he returned he found his wife in the condition stat ed. Before aid could be summoned she lapsed into unconsciousness from which she had not recovered late this afternoon. She is in a serious condition. Robbery is the supposed object of the attack as it was supposed that money was kept in the house and the attack was evidently planned by some one who had knowledge of the absence of the husband and the un orotected condition of Mrs. Foard, there being no one else in the house Owing to the serious condition of the victim of the attack and the ex cited condition of her husband little information can be gained from them. It is thought that on the re- eoverv to consciousness of Mrs. Foard some light may be thrown on the method of attack and its object. Bloodhounds were immediately sent from Los Angeles and when brought " to the scene acted in a strange manner seeming to be con fused in picking up the scent. This is attributed to the fact that more than one man was engaged in the crime. A man whose name has not been U,mrA has been arrested and is held under suspicion. VAN VLISSENGER HAS MANY VICTIMS Work of Shrewd Chicago Been Known But CHICAGO, Nov. 17. Peter Van Vlissengen, who was arrested, con fessed, tried, convicted, and sentenc ed yesterday afternoon decided to day to forego temporarily his desire to begin immediately on his serv ice of prison sentence and will re main in Chicago long enough to aid in untangling his business affairs which were found to be' in a very snarled condition. So clever was his forgeries that assignees are unable to tell the genuine from spurious. Van Vlissengen's assignees were unable to tell the genuine from the Over 600 Asicrtens Brave Storm to 'Attend immm king, hue Dr. Enna's Beautiful Cpora h the Leading Feature cf Entertainment CHORUSES HAKE DECIDED HIT Affair Last Night Easily Outranks Anything Ever Attempted by Local Talent, and Will be Long Remem bered by All Who Were Present Despite the downpour of rain and 1 the high sweeping winds that raged over the city last night, over 6)0 people found their way to the A. A. A. A. hall and enjoyed the superb' musical program rendered by the Astoria Philharmonic Society in its second grand concert here since its organization. The affair easily outranks anything ever attempted by local talent in this city, and was a complete and genuine 'success to its uttermost de tail. There were no divided opinions anywhere in the matter as the grati- . fied throng wended its way from the building after: the performance; nothing but the frankest and ' most generous praise for the brilliant group of contributors could be heard and this unanimity must stand spon sor for the color this paper gladly adds to the universal verdict. Of course, the prime feature of the evening's work was the presentation of the beautiful numbers from Dr. Enna's opera "The Mountain King"; and one after another, they were given, in perfect form, and with a grace and precision, that but ac centuated the lovliness of the theme and the strains in which it was told. The Peasant Dance, the Vesper Bell chorus; prelude, arias, solos, the wedding music, ballet music, the Butterfly, Flower, Fairy dances, and the recitatives; all were charmingly disposed and encored to the echo. It was a revelation to even the most intimate friends of the brilliant young composer and leaves him with an added and grateful triumph in the art to which he is completely devoted. The host present was quick to note the exquisite adapta tion of the music to the literary elaboration of the drama as it un folded and marked their apprecia tion, step by step, throughout its (Continued on page 6) Forger May flever llavo for His Confession spurious when they were presented by various holders and they had to be referred to the prisoner. All day long Van Vlissingen's former office now tenanted by clerks of the assig nee was besieged by holders of paper purchased from the self-confessed forger. Eighty thousand dollars of spurious paper have been brought to light so far, most of it is in the hands of prominent local brewers. A large number of persons in moder ate circumstances were caught, how ever for sums, the loss of which will be seriously felt.