The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930, December 12, 1908, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textri-.l.L- i.l PUBLISH!! FOtt AftOCIATCO PRESS ftCPORT :0tftB3TMt MORNING fllLD ON TMC LOW i & COLUMBIA 33fd YEAB. NO. 290 ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12. 1908 PEICE FIVE CENTS II UK Currency System Sure to Get Overhauling FULTON HEARD FROM Senator Brings Forward Claims o! me Pacific Northwest toTaft Mckinley endorses knight Representative of California Recom mends G eerie A. Knight Also From California For Cabinet Posi tion Import Business Transacted WASHINGTON. D. C, Dec 11.- Fretldent Roouvtlt and President elect Taft bad an extended confer- ence tonight. Among the matters discussed wai the make-up of the Taft cabinet. Before the conference Taft announced he should decline to give any details whatever aid from the advance announcement that tie should talk over many important matters with the President. Taft tomorrow will, likely have a conference with Secretary Root re garding his cabinet. During an in terview today between Taft and Aid rich, the result of the monetary commission's work was gone over. Taft heretofore has gone over these matters in detail with Representative Burton and it is a safe prediction that the neat administration will be fa vorable to the enactment of at least some of the recommendations look ing toward the reform in the cur rency system of the country. George A. Knight of California was recom mended for the cabinet position to day by Representative McKlnley of the same state. Cardinal Gibbons and Father Ket eham conferred as special represen tatives of the Catholic Indians on mattera pending before the Indian bureau. - Representatives of the Farmers' National Congress called on Taft to receive assurances of hla interest In their organisation. Senator Fulton brought forward the claims of the Pacific Northwest for preferment in the diplomatic service. Senators Kit tredge and Gamble,' over the political situation in their state, were also re ceived by Taft' - . COLUMBIA RIVER BRINGS QUICK CURE Drunken Man Takes Bartender's Advice to Jump Overboard--Narrowly Escapes Death VANCOUVER, Wash., Dec. 11. Taklng the advice of a bartender to "Try the Columbia" nearly cost J. W. Cole, of Yacolt, his life by drown ing today. Colewent into a saloon while under the influence of liquor and the bartender refused to furnish him with liquor . giving gratuitously the advice stated.-. Cole, in his half maudlin state, took the advice scr losly and rambled off down to the river and jumped-in. The cold wat ter brought him to", and his screams for help attracted : the attention of passing steamer which picked him up jus! in time to save his life. A BABY'S VOICE. CHICAGO, Dec. 11. Pat Crowe, FT Dili CABINET Covernor Hoggatt of Alaska and Taft had an audience this afternoon. Taft will go to New York tomor row night and Thursday he will itart for Atlanta. NEVER SOUGHT PENSION. ANACONDA, Mont., Dec. 11. John B. McCaffrey, aged about 86, a veteran of the Mexican -and Civil wars and a member of General Ter ry's command on an expedition of that force into Montana, died yester day of apoplexy. McCaffrey would never apply for a pension or permit hia friends to, although he was en titled to one. E MAKES El RE CORD FOR SPEED IMPORTANT BILLS USUALLY REQUIRINO SEVERAL DAYS PASSED QUICKLY USUAL TALK IS ABANDONED Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation Bills Are Passed With Little Debate and Hardly Any Revision. WASHINGTON. D. 0, Dec. 11.- A new record for transaction nf business was established by the House of Representatives today. Legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill which usually ex cites considerable discussion, was passed with little debate. An un usual feature was that no member asked for time to indulgeln a gen eral talk. The bill carries an appro priation of $31,335. The House immediately after con vening adopted a resolution for the appointment of a committee of five to consider the reference to a secret service in the President's message and to suggest what action should be taken in the matter. Hawley, of Oregon, today Intro duced a bill authorizing the secre tary of the interior to place on the pension "roll under the same terms granted to officers and soldiers of other Indian wars the naraea of offi cers and soldiers of the Bsnneck War which occurred in Oregon and Washington in 1878-9. whose former lawless career came to a climax in the kidnapping of Eddie Cudahy, made his debut last night as an evangelist before an audience In Evanston. The meet was held under the auspices of the W. C. T. U. Prison Reform League. Crowe grew eloquent in a plea to citizens to aid in prison reform and stop the manu facture of criminals in reform schools and penitentiaries.' As he spoke a baby's voice in the rear of the hall frequently interrupted him.. "That's my baby making that noise," Crowe explained. "I hope I can live to give it a good education and make of it a good citizen." A PLEASANT CRISIS Chicago Postal Authorities Take Hu mane View of Things, CHICAGO, Dec, 11. -Childish dreams of toys and dolls as well as pleas for the sick and needy, sent to Santa Claus through the mails will be granted if Assistant Postmaster Hub bard has his way. , He made an appeal to the Wash ington authorities for power to open Hbout 600 letters to St. Nicholas which have accumulated within the last few days and expects au answer tomorrow. If this permission is granted it is his intention to have the missives read and the merits of the appeals inves tigated. "In case it is decided that the re quests are from worthy children," said Mr. Hubbard, "I will turn them over to charitable institutions and charitably inclined people." CHICAGO FIRE. CHICACO. Dec. ll.-Mrs. Eliza beth Carr and her baby son were burned to death and several others were injured by jumping from win dows in a fire in this city tonight. BIO LUMBER DEAL. ' DULUTH, Minn., Dec. U.-Lum-ber interests represented by the Wey erhauesers. O'Brien and Cook of St. Paul and Duluth and Edward Hin'es of Chicago, are here working on the formation of a lumber company which will control practically alt the pine in North America. The greatest secrecy is being observed, but it is known that the deal is almost finished. . - . PANAMA, Dec. 11. -A report re- ceived here today that President Roosevelt had ordered the policing? of Panama by American marines when the American sailors land here . . I during their visit of the Pacific fleet next week has caused much surprise. Panama officials made elaborate plans for protecting the sailors af ter President O'Baldia made ,'t known that Panama should avail it self of an opportunity to demonstrate its friendship for the United States is sincere. The alleged order of Pres ident Roosevelt has dampened the odor and chances are if the report true, instead of It warm hospital ity, a cold courtesy will be tendered the fleet. WHITE M 1RDERS BULLY WALKS INTO SALOON AND MAKES A GENERAL CLEANING UP. CAUSE OF CRIME UNKNOWN William .Latura Refuses to Give Any Information Why he Commit ted Awful Deed Quietly Submits to Arrest MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. ll.-'Tve shot 'em and that is all there is to it," Beyond that statement as he was being led to a local police headquar ters, William Latura, a white man of this city, proffered no explanation of the killing of three negroes and the wounding of four others at a saloon here early today. According to the statement of bystanders, when Latura entered the saloon a group of negroes were about a pool table in the rear of the room engaged in a game. As he walked into the room it is declared Latura, after surveying .the crowd leisurely unbuttoned a long overcoat he wore and drew an automatic pis tol. If any words passed those who escaped the rain of bullets which fol lowed by dodging behind the furni ture, declare they heard none. As Latura shot one after another of the negroes fell. ; When the police arrived THREE HOES RIVER ID Hi ll CHESS Hugh Sum for Improve- i ment is Favored CANNON IS SILENT When Committee Presents Bond Resolution Speaker Has Nothing to Say TO WITHDRAW ARMY AT CUBA First Details Regarding the With drawal of American Army From Cuba is Made Known Movement to Begin January First I . WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 11.- With great enthusiasm the national rivers : and harbors congress at its concluding session here today placed itself on record in favor of the issu ance of . srovernment bonds for im. provement of the great water pro- JCC,- CoWt!i "declared for au- thor"ed issued by conKreM its prtsent SMsion of .OOO.OOO bonds Jhe Pr0eds to be used in payment ... ... ...i.. .1 i i i av'iukvijt vi iu.n river ana narDur work as may be authorized by con gress, provision for issue being the same as for the Panama Canal bonds. The committee then presented to Vice-President Fairbanks-and Speak er Cannon, the bond resolution. Fairbanks expressed a favorable opinion of the -proposition but Can non merely assured the committee that the resolution would be referred for consideration. Among the vice- presidents for various states elected are: Idaho W. B. Heyburn,, Wallace. Oregon Joseph W. Bennett, Marshfield. Washington W. O. Fowler, Se attle. At the war department today the first details regarding withdrawal from Cuba of the American armv was made known. A movement will begin January 1st and be completed by April 1. Army officers and civi lian officials will sail from Ha van i day after inauguration of President Gomez and the soldiers will be 'withdrawn as fast as facilities will permit and all the treoos will be landed at Newport News, Virginia. The insurgents considered various suBffestions for more than two hours. Heburn said he desired it know than all members invited to the meeting with the exception of Representative Norris who is out of town, were present. The "insurgents" claim that in the present congress they need but 27 Republicans to be able to control the situation by joining the Demo crats and in the 61st congress they say they will need but 24 Republi cans. Three members were present tonight, Hepburn, Pollard and Ellis,, will not be members of the next congress. While several of the in surgents are for Cannon for Speaker, they made it plain that they greatly desired a change in the rules. None of those presented stated whether it was Intended to bring the matter to an issue in the present session of congress or to wait until the new congress. three were dead and four others were lying about the floor wounded, one of the latter a woman. His weapon empty, Latura threw it in an ash heap and walked to neighboring saloon, where he quietly submitted to arrest. The Morning Astorian contains full Associated Press reports, all the latest local happenings. Delivered by carrier, 60 cents per month. ATTEL GETS BEAT AGAIN. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11. -A I Wolgast of Milwaukee, outfought Abe Attel, the ' ex-featherweight champion, here tonight. The fight was for ten rounds with no official decision permitted under the law Wolgast rushed the fighting in every round and took a lot of punishment. Attcll fought lazily and entirely on the defensive, and lacked his old-time speed and cleverness. LOVER OP ANIMALS. Remarkable Story From the Lake City of Interest To AIL CHICAGO, Dec. ll.-Friends , of Cy de Vry, head animal keener of Lincoln Park, fear that he will incur the displeasure of President Roose velt as a result of some statements he made about animals last nitrht. De Vry spoke before the Men's Club of the Church of Our Savior, on "In the Jungle. J)uring his talk ss he recounted the almost human traits of "Miss Dolly," the celebrated ourang outang who died some years ago, he betrayed emotion. The animal keener said that Miss Dolly was more human in her actions than many a person he knows. . Bnut it was when he told about snake eating and cow elk eating the antlers of male elk while the latter slept that his auditors, nearly all of them personal friends, sat op end appeared incredulous. 2000 SERVANTS. Chicago Sends in Another Queer Story of the Day. CHICAGO, Dec. ll.-That there are 2000 servant girls In Evanston who do not attend church and have no church affiliations is the discovery made by Mrs. Catherine Waueh Mc- Culloch inan investigation which cov ered all the churches of the suburb. A movement was started by several women of the church in September i have the parlors thrown opes every Thursday afternoon as club- rooms where the girls in domestic service might meet and. where var ious kinds of entertainment would be given them. Opponents of the plan argued that all the servant girls had their own church affilia tions and should not be molested. The scheme of Mrs. McCulloch will now be revived. - SOALLPOX CI BOARD THE GEORGIA ONLY ONE CASE HOWEVER 1 A Mn DATA MPr M? rnwnf IN GOOD HEALTH. WILL REACH COLOMBO SUNDAY Wireless Message Reports Atlantic Fleet Sailing in Good Weather Georgia Leaves Fleet For Colombo To Leave Charge. COLOMBO, Ceylon, Dec. 11. A wireless received from the Atlantic fleet at 8 p. m., December 10th, says the fleet expects to arrived in Colom bo Sunday morning. The weather is perfect. The Georgia left the fleet December 9th for Colombo at a speed of 14 knots, having a case of smallpox on board. It is not serious. The health of the rest of-the" fleet is excellent. Stawicki, fireman, and MVDonald, electrician, fell overboard on December 7th from the New Jer sey. McDonald was rescued, but Stawicki was not recovered although a thorough search was made. FOREMAN BADLY BEATEN. Robert Livingstone Found in Critical Condition at Goble. PORTLAND, Dec. 11. - Robert Livingstone, section foreman on the TIFF Oil PIIPPHIE GO 111 BE FOUR HUNDRED SACRIFICED. CHICAGO, Dec. 11 Bowing cour teously and murmuring "excuse me," a patron of Wishack's drusi store. Halstead and Madison streets, tried last night to get out of the way of his own reflection in a mirror and stepped into another, sending a show er of glass over the place. A policeman was about to arrest the unlucky patron when the proprie-' tor of the store interfered. 'He is one of my best customers. Mr. Wishack said, "and I do not want to get into trouble over an accident." The patron said that he was looking toward the floor in explanation of his I inability to recognize his own reflec tion. The mirror was valued at $400. RiMEHART ASKS JUDOE FOR THE "LIT" MAN WHO BEAT HIS MOTHER Avn runreifn hts ststtto J WHILE TNTOx-TPATF.n SENTENCED TO ONE YEAR Ten. Judge That he is Guilty and Wants the Limit" and if he Doesjlearnea ,urtner regarding tanlt on it Again he Wants to be Hanged j Philippine sugar and tobacco as a re Sentence Will Teach Him a Lesson suit of conference yesterday between . jTaft and a majority of the members - .. . I?' committee. That the House ill VANCOUVER, Wash, Dec. 11. JPass the m which wil1 rtvise thof- Pleading guilty to having beaten his mother and painfully hurting his lit-i, 1 . tie sister by crushing her in his arms, while intoxicated, Edward Rinehart today advised the court to give him the "limit" KT ... . . , . , . I am guilty, Rmehart declared, .... nna x warn. 10 oe given ine umii. If you ever catch me doing it again I want you to sentence hanged." me to be Rinehart was sentenced to one year i imprisonment in the county jail. Northern Pacific at Goble was prob- ably fataly beaten sometime last fore it was necessary for the com night in his cabin at Goble. His as-(mittee to hold further meetings sailant left Jum for dead: Living- J ter the Christmas holidays, stone brought to Portland today, and! Wtih President-elect Taft and the physicians tonight say his chances House in favor of the tariff law for recovery are slim. It was first ! which will meet present conditions supposed robbery was the motive, ' and materially revise the present du but the finding of $350 Ih the cabin ( ties mainly downward, the discus leads to the belief that there was sion of the situation centers in the some other motive. possible action of the Senate. CHICAGO MYSTERY "Knights of White Death" Turns Out to be Dbs Novel Crazed Youth CHICAGO, Dec. 11 The mystery of the "Knights of the White Death" letters which were recently sent to various clergymen and prominent citizens in this city, with a threat that unless they left large sums of money at designated spots they would be put to death was cleared up tonight when William Pollard, 22 years old, driver of a grocery wagon was arrested andconfessed to having sent the missives as a joke. Pollard blamed Conan Doyle's stories for crime of his exploit. Fascinated with novelist's lurid pictures, Pollard declared he had determined to see how they would work out In the hands of the Chicago police. So he REVIS Tobacco and Sugar ichcdule toba Changed CGMPROHISE REACHED Taft Does Net Discuss Any Particular Schedule at Present CARNEGIE ONLY WITNESS Chairman Payne Gives Out Infor mation That up to the Present Time Carnegia is the Only Sub poenaed Witness, tiripirTlTnVAlt T . . unonifli,iu, u. v., jjec. u. Tariff hearings before the ways and means committee will continue throughout the short session of con gress and President-elect Taft will have another conference with the committee. ; , ...... "e . " , oughly the present schedules is gen- 1 t4 Ifv aslmirrsx-1 A voutAriv'a , . .. iference Taft did not discuss any particu,ar sche(Jules but expresed a desire to take up some of the schedules at some future time. He 'also avorea act'on 00 the part of the committee, that would bring be- I, i. . . , , fore it those manufacturers who have j expressed their views publicly on i the tariff question as well as any j persons who could furnish valuable 1 infArmfltiftn in r,wr trt J n,Anit. , . . , . t . I... til'tram,. 00 ... . - witness who had been subpoenaed upon to' the present time and there- IS CLEARED UP organized the "Knights of the. White Death" and with Sherlock Holmes fancy, wrote out a bundle of letters decorated with skulls and cross bones. Demands for money he said were simply added to enliven the mystery, as he never went to see whether the money was left or not. " Pollard in the course of his confes sion says: "Besides those sent to clergymen, I sent letters to Assistant Chief of Police Schuettler, telling the latter to leave $700 in the confessional box of St. Charlotte's church. I vas de lighted when I read that Dr. Dixon, with detectives stood waiting almost all night for the White Knights to appear for the money."