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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1909)
v--.-. . iw .v " f- iX; J .PUBLISHES PULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT COVERS THE MORNINQ FIELD ON THB LOWER COLUMBIA - 1 C'V- f 1X7 f Mpifrfifr- - .'I' 111 , : !., I : ' ' ' "' ' ' " 1 " ' ' " ' ' " 1 . ' ' ' K. Jin .;:i;f.vi Mil) ,rtn am in ,,.-.: ...... ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1SC3 ENTIRE ; SQUfJD. C0UI1TRY FEELS . DJSTIIiCT EARTHQUAKE Considerable Damage at Port Townsend tip.'- ' t BREAKS WATER PIPES Reports From a Dozen Points Say Quake Lasted Between 10 and 20 Seconds PEOPLE ARE PANIC STRICKEN Shake Jtn BaUdlngt, Ctutag PU. ter to Fll In Great Quantities Many Home Flood4 by Bursting Main in Port Townsend. t PORT TOWNSEND, Wuk, Jan - II. Ag earthquake shock ctuied con- ldmbto damage here at 3:50 thU ftrnoon, lusting from 10 to IS ice onds. The tenrblof took form of vi bratory convulsion, awaying building! and breaking many window. In many placet whera water pipe had been froitn, force of quaka burst the mains and flooded house. For a time it was feared the city's entire water supply . tnutt be shut off so great was the damage being done, Reports from localities tributary to this show that the temblor extended oversn area of country at least 50 miles square and in several districts two distinct shocks were felt, separated by more than minute. Officers at Fort Worden state so far as Investigations show, there is apparently no damage to fortifica tioits, although both Fort Worden s and Fort Flagler exeprienced bad shocks. - ,...., Mount Baker Smoking. BELUNQJIAKf, Wash., Jan. 11.- )t There is a report that immediately af ter the shock the smoke was seen to I or dormant volcano. t Several buildings were; slightly I damaged at Blaine by the temblor, i TJie earthquake was felt at 3.-4S this afternoon. The buildings in all parts of town were1 jarred by too. damage was done. 5 Hundreds of people rushed Into the streets. The duration of the shock was about 10 seconds, t Some brick buildings were so badly damaged that plaster fell to the floor and in some places there was almost a panic at it was thought the structures were all tumbling t the ground. , ' ' ' Reports of the temblor came from all parts of the county, ! Only one shock was felt. Everett Feels Quake. distinct earthquake shocks were felt at 3:51 this afternoon in Everett and vicinity, traveling east to west. The buildings were shaken up but there was no damage. ; Lasted 20 Seconds. VANCOUVER, B. C, Jan. II At 3:44 this afternoon a distinct earth quake was felt in Vancouver, Shock was felt in many other cities on the coast, i The quake appear to have lasted 10 to 20 seconds. No damage was don here. At Cedar Grove and Grand View people rushed from their houses into the streets. The shock was felt heavily at Fairview. Tacoma Shake. TACOMA, Jan. U.-A distinct earth tremor waa felt here it 3:45 this afternoon, it lasted between 10 to IS seconds. Loose furniture on the upper floor of office building were jostled about. Seattle Peel Shock. SEATTLE, Jan. ll.-Reporta of slight earthquake come from Van couver, B. C, Sumas, Tacoma, Ever ett, Bellingham and Port Townsend. The same temblor was felt here at 3:44 o'clock an lasted from seven sec onds to half minute, according to reports from various part of the city. No damage wa done here, but people in a number of instance rushed from the buildings. fr:ce five tvm FIFIEEO OTES 0 THE CHILL VATER AFTER TERRIBLE STRUGGLE IN SLUSH ICE J.. C KEN NEDY IS RESCUED. Slipping by accident from the side walk on the north side of Commer cial street into the icy water of the river on Sunday night, J. C Kennedy, man who has been recently employ ed near Warrenton, fought and strug gled in the cold water for fully 15 minutes before he was rescued by sev eral men who had been attracted to the scene. Kennedy's experience was terrible one, and ' that he1 lived through it all seems little short of miraculous and the manner of his slipping Into the water waa almoat as odd a wa hi plight terrible. - Kennedy wa in drink.1 He was walking east on Commercial" street, on the north aide, and was about 400 feet east of the fire engine house. In his hand he carried a large bundle. With blinding force the snow was striking into his face as he moved steadily but slowly along. r Then to understand ' just what happened it should be recalled that the railing along the street there is about four feet high, and that the lowest board just about two feet, from the side walk. i". VJt ) J.T:. K . All at once Kennedy's feet struck EVERETT, Wash., Jan, 11 Two an icy, spot .and they went out from WASHINGTON SEN ATE HAS BUSY TIME 'ass Bill Increasing Superior Judges in King and Pierce Counties ' i S vj k ,r- ' J- r ' ' OLYMPIA, Jan. 11-The Washing in State Legislature made 'k new record for business transacted during iation was completed In accordance with the caucus agreements with i-,. O: Meigs," speaker of the house, and A. S. Ruth, president pro tern of the senate.. While in previous years it has been eustomary to attempt to transact no other business' than Orga nization, there was passed today an appropriation bill $85,000 for salaries , .t .'' :' .H'?- ' and current expenses of the session and two other bills were introducd in Senate, one creasing the number of superior Judges In King county and the other increasing the number in Pierce county, , ... Concurrent resolution adopted in both houses opposes the removal of duty on lumber. The Democrats op posed the resolution. The ' house adopted the concurrent resolution fa voring the resoltion for an appropria tion by congress of $1,000,000 for the under bim like a shot, and as he fell his body was propelled under this lowest board of the guard rail and out into spacej he fell thirty feet into the chill waters below,' and then be gan his terrible struggle for life in the cold water and the heavy slush ice that encompassed him on every side. i .- ' . Just ahead of Kennedy, as he fell, was Wm. Petersen, walking in the same direction, and he heard the cry that came from the falling man's lips a he went down. Petersen turned, and uw nothing only the figure of two ladies coming from behind, and j ne continued his journey. The two ladies, however, being only a few feet behind, had witnessed the whole in cident through the blinding snow. One of them was Miss Morrison. From below there ca'me no sound, but aa they called out a moment later the struggling nun answered them. Luckily another man came along irom te other direction at the mo ment and the ladies appealed to him, lie took in the situation at a glance and ran for the fire engine house for help. Tibbets, one of the firemen, grabbed a rope and ran for the scene. By the time he had got there fully 10 minute must have passed at the very least, but Kennedy was still swim ming and thrashing about in the water and calling for assistance. With a lucky throw the fireman threw the rope so that it fell about the chilled and drowning man's shoul ders and his benumber fingers closed over it But there Was danger that he might let go any second and sink below the ice. Tibbets knew that there wa a stationary ladder leading down to the water about 100 feet to the west, and he began to bault the man along toward it, aa if he had a fish on the end of line. "Go alow, go low," Kennedy kept saying. At last he was got to the bottom of the ladder, and white another man held the rope T'bbits hastened down and tied the rope around Kennedy's shoulder. But he was hardly able to get up the ladder, even with the aid of the men pulling on the rope, and when he finally was lifted over the rail he sank back on the snow, with his power all gone. He was hurried to the engine house and there warmed up. He had been in the water fully 15 minutes. Yesterday, after an experience that few men could have lived through, Kennedy was walking about as usual. He had not even caught a cold. The kindly hand that watches over chil dren, fools and some . others, had touched him with its careful ministra tions. Had not the ladie seen him tan nis cries tor neip would never have been heard, for the storm silene- 'ed. everything, a few feet away. ILWTEIIS HIS SIDE '. ' i ' . - - j, . . "; -.- ..... .j ,, Answers the Charges in Strong Terms t . ' ' ' ' 1 ( it.. CHEERED iN SENATE Senator Has Carefully Prepared Speech Which He Delivered During Session STORMY DISCUSSION. WASHINGTON, Janu. U.'-After a stormy discussion in the House to day, resolution granting the use of the pension office building for the in augural ball went over for two weeks. Speaker Cannon announced a com mittee of five which will conduct an investigation Into the secret service, provided by resolution of last Sat urday. , - ir . '. 1 10 LiBEIi 10 BE RELEfi FROO HVPiWIC POWER H iff.? no 0S13 SIM FLUE DENIES ALL ACCUSATIONS Tillman Says he WiU Some Day Bring Roosevelt Face to Face With His True Character Which Will Shock the World. LAD TAKES GUN LEFT BY HIS . FATHER AND INSTANTLY KILLS COMPANION. STOCKTON, Cal., Jan. H.-Jean Craven five years old, innocently took from the table of his home this after noon a 44 caliber rifle left there by his father. The child pointed it at John Deckendorff, six year old, and pulled the trigger. John was struck in the side and died within a few minutes. OllilJjlECIEO AS SPMKER PATTON i WITHDRAWS 1 FROM CONTEST MAKING NOMINA TION UNANIMOUS. SALEM, Or,, Jan. 11. After the member had been sworn in by Chief Justice Bean at the. afternoon's ses sion, the election of Speaker was im mediately taken up; McArthur was placed forward by Campbell, the cau caus chairman, , while Miinkers ; of Linn, on behalf of the Democrats, nominated M. F. Corrigan, of Yam hill. Corrigan received seven compli mentary Democratic votes, Bedillion of Coos being absent. , The nominee , himself voted for Munkers. McArthur cast his ballot for E. W. Conyers, of Clatskanie, the man1 who helped elect) McArthur's grandfather to the United States Sen ate in 1860. Farrcl being absent, this left McArthur with 49, or all but two of the Republican votes. Bean of Lane; Campbell of Clacka mas, and Patton were selected by the temporary chairman to escort McAr thur tq the chair. He took his seat amid tumultuous applause, and upon repeated calls for a speech repeated substantially his remarks when select ed S3 the Speaker in caucus. It was decided that the house at- WASHINGTON, Jan, ll.-Senator Tillman wa the central figure in the Senate today occupying Senate today occupying almost an hour of the time of that body immediately on it meet ing, with a carefully prepared speech in reply to the President" (charges concerning his action in attempting to purchase some of the timberlands of Oregon, originally held as a railroad grant, Tillman was greeted with ap plause from the galleries when he en tered the Senate chamber. He had prepared his remarks and read them with little attempt at oratorical ef fect. In addition to his printed speech, Tillman had prepared other brief re marks which he read: .. ' It ha been expected and desired," he said, "That having made ray own defense, I should direct my batteries on my assailant I do not think my strength sufficient for the double task, for my physicians have warned me against exerting myself. One of the best and .-truest sentiments in the English literature is this, from Tenny son: 'Soiling another will rever make oneself clean.' : "The President lives in ' a ; glass house, with even a glass door in it, and should remember the old adage; He has exerted all the power of the government to destroy me, but I feel that I stand unscathed, because if all other arguments fail to convince me, character for' rectitude, truthfulness and honesty which I have builded in the 61 years of my life, would at least be my bulwark. Men who have always been clean and honorable do not sud denly become liars and hypocrites at 61, without any necessity. , , Later ,it is my purpose to devote some time to bringing Theodore Roosevelt face to face with his true self and let the people of the United States see what character of man they have so bowed down to. For the present I will content myself with ap plying to him this quotation from Spencer's Fairy Queen: "'He ranges throughout the whole world, t " 1 Neither is there any that can re- s strain him.' "' "Of late he .has grown especially presumption and prestilent barking at and biting all alike, whether they are to blame; worthy or innocent." The Senate passed a bill appro priating $90,000 for the purchase of Sequoia Grove of Big Trees. taches shall be named by the chair man of delegation from the different districts. " ; The House then adjourned to meet again at 10 o clock tomorrow morn ing. OREGON LEGISLATURE OEET AT SALEf. EFFECT TEMPORARY ORGAN! ZATION WITH SENATOR KAY AS CHAIRMAN. SALEM, Or., Jan. ll.-After a Re publican caucus, the first ever open to the press, the Senate effected tem porary organization this morning with Senator Kay as temporary chair man, and took a recess until 2 o'clock, when permanent organization will be named with Jay Bowerman as presi dent. The caucus was conducted without dissension, 'the program pre arranged at Portland being executed to the smallest detail. Because every thing was cut and dried, no objec tions were made to press representa tives attending. - Following are the officers of the Senate, as selected by Republican caucus: Chief ClericWilliam H. Barry, Multnomah. - ' ; Assistant ' Chief Cleric John P. Hunt, Marion. Calendar Clerk Roy Ritner, Uma tilla.; , ., Reading Clerk Frank Hotter, Mul tnomah. Mailing Clerk Elbert Warford, Linn. . . Doorkeeper Geo. Waggner, Ben ton." 'vi ',.. v - .., ' Sergeant-at-Arms'-W. H. H. Du- fur, Hood River." REGK PASSENGER TO AlGEERlEi THEORY ADVANCED BY DE TECTIVES IN THE GREAT NORTHERN WRECK. BELLINGHAM, Wash., Jan. U.- Engineer John Daley who was on the Great Northern passenger train which plunged through the trestle on Jan uary 7th at South Bellingham, died today on the operating table of heart failure, caused by anaesthetic The detectives are making every effort to ferret out the perpetrators of the" crime. Tfiey advanced the belief to day that it was done by friends of Jim Jenkins, a negro recently executed at New West Minster, B. C, for mur der, Daley was a material witness CARTHAGE, Mo.: Jan 11 -Rev J.H. Carmichael of Adair, Mich., committed suicide here today by cut ting his throat from ear to ear. He left a long letter in which he admit: rted killing Browning in the Methodist church near Columbus, Mich, and of cutting up Browning's body and in fating it la the church stove. His letter is blood curdling and fantasti cal, interweaving hypnotism as a rea son leading up to the killing. Car michael declared that Browning held that Browning held hypnotic power ove' him compelling him to do acts against his will, notwithstanding that 1 Browning was Carmichael's mental'm- feriorl He tells of Browning having compelling him by .this myterious agency of having taken a drive to Port Huron, to having made him buy a hatchet While Carmichael was in the store he tried ;'tO escape . but Browning was looking at him through the door, and he just bought the hatchet and came out again. ' The reason for Carmichaels going to Co lumbus was to perform a' wedding ceremony for Browning. Browning, Carmichael says, met the minister on the road. Browninir was alone.' but told Carmichael it was all right that the others would come in a carriage. After they got to the church, Brown ing told him. there was no one else coming and that there was going to be no wedding. Browning was sitting "Where gleam of light shone on his face and his eyes were so teilxant that I thrilled through and through with the queerest sort of feeling." Carmichal says Browning told him that if he told him to raise his hands, that up they would go and Carmichael declares that without an effort on his of Carrcichea! Weird Lett: 33 - II . THEN TAKES OWN LIFE minister Claims Brcwning Com pelled Kim to Act Against His Will TELLS OF FIERCE STRUGGLE Letter is Blood Curdling in Its De tails of Murder and How Body Was 'Dismembered and Poked Into Rod Hot Stove. - ... to laugh again and I saw he was hold ing a weapon of some sort up his sleeve. . Instantly I made a grab for it and got the hatchet from him aad asked him what he meant to do with it,' and ho said TB show you, aisd from his overcoat pocket drew out a knife in each hand. He came at Ke striking with both hands while I backed across the church. There was a desperate struggle in which I used the hatchet until he lav ouJet. T part he felt his hand, raise. "By this 1- "aPpcnea MW time' I was in a cold sweat. I then Jf'" U" UP" ne ..-- :t - t.. i lof tnose kmves, I flew into a rage and leaned Over to see if anyone might be coming up the road, when he began HEKET; RETURNS saii wm TO IS GREETED BY LARGE CROWD AS HE ARRIVES AT THE BAY CITY. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 11. A cheering crowd of several hundred persons gathered at the Ferry build ing tonight to greet Francis J. Heney, who, with his wife, returned tonight from an -absence of several weeks in the East. The reception accorded the prosecutor was informal but very en-' thusiastic. In a short speech he de clared he had returned to press the graft cases, "Until every grafter in San Francisco is placed where he be longs." Heney said he will take per sonal charge of Calhoun's prosecution tomorrow, and also stated that he is in splendid physical condition. again began cutting him when he woke up and grabbed me again. Then for a while I used the hatchet until I was sure he was dead. Then I saw that the fire was hot enough to make the stove red, nearly to the elbow, so I grabbed him up by the feet and dragged him down there and cut him to pieces putting -in each part as it was dismembered.'" u " ' " f SIX MONTHS AND $1000. - 'MANILA,' Jan. II Martin Ocampo and Fidel Reyes, members of the edi torial staff of the Filipino daily paper "El Renaciminto," were today con victed of having printed in the paper articles of a libelous nature regarding Dean C. Worcester, one of the Fili pino commissioners and ''were sen tenced to six months each in prison in addition' to a' fine of $1000 each. ' CHAMPION PASSES AWAY. !; DENVER, Jan. 41. Dr. Charles Denison, specialist in the treatment of tuberculosis and of world-wide fame, as a leader in the war on that disease died at his home in this city yesterday as a result of gangrene of the liver and acute septicemia, due to gallstones. - BREAK IN WEATHER IS NOW PROMISED M.J Forecast Predicts Cold to Moderate Today-Colum bia is Crossed on Foot PORTLAND, Jan. 11. For the iand the Columbia has frozen over so rst time in a week some encourage ment was found by those who daily scan the weather bureaus buletin. Al though the prediction for Western Washington for tomorrow is fair and continued cold, for the district imme- iatcly around Portland and for Southwestern Oregon the weather is xpected to moderate beginning to morrow afternoon. The past 24 hours witnessed many places a degree colder than has been experienced be- bard that a number of venturesome persons were able to walk across on the ice. The ice pack just below the mouth-of the Willamette has not yet compelled suspension of navigation by ocean craft although the river craft are blocked. The Oregon Railway & Navigation Company is having considerable diffi culty in maintaining its schedules along the Columbia River, The rail roads troulla is as much to attributa- as, ess ,ts ser