84th YEAR. NO. 2.k
. ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1803
PRICE FIVE CENTS
A
PflESIBEIJT TAKES PHYSICAL TEST
111 GREAT EASE
Covers 98 f.lilcscnliorse
back in 17 Hours
If! SLEET AND RAIN
f-hkei Trip to Demlnstr&t
That Recent Military Order
It Not Overbearing
RETURNS FEELING FINE
Roosevelt Argues That if h Can Cov
tf Distance in Oot Cay Without
Training, Officers Should b Able to
Make it in Three Days.
washincton; JaiU.-rr.I
dent Roosevelt rode 98 mile on hone
back today and when be dismounted
at the White House door more than
17 houre after he had departed, and
did not show any marked signs of
weariness. The Journey was to War
ren ton, Va., and back. At the latter
place he took luncheon and made a
ahort sddresi to the, school children,
He waa accompaoied by Surgeon
General Rixcy, Dr. Carey Crayaon
and Captain Archibald Butt, one of
the president's , aides, The last 30
miles of the journey was made in the
sleet and rain, while the last IS was In
almost pitch darkness. When the
President dismounted at the While
House, his coat and hat were frozen
stiff with sleet and ice. In less than
an hour afterward he appeared at
dinner In a dresssuil, ready for as
hearty a meal aa he has eaten in a
long time.
. Object of the ride, the president
said to the Associated Press, was
"To prove to critics who have found
fault with the recent order requiring
atl jirmy and navy officers to make
physical test, that If the president,
who is not in training, can. ride 90
miles plus in one day without being
laid up in bed thereby, it should not
be too much to ask men who are sup
posed to be in the best physical train
ing at all times to ride 90 miles in
three dy- -And ; Virginia roads ( in
the winter time," said the President,
"Are not usually in , the best condi
tion."' 't''':r;'!!'
&ajam i, mama
ference is the result of the Central
American peace conference held in
Washington in 1907, at which the rep
resentatives of Costa Rica, Salvador,
Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua
by convention agreed that on Janu
ary 1 every year for live years and
longer, if satisfactory, delegates ac
credited by each of the five countries
shall meet in order to treat on ques
tions of an economic and financial
nature and all matters which the gov
ernments may see fit to submit.
Pr, Berbereoa' was elected presi
dent and Dr. Munox selected as sec
DIFFICULTY III FORHIHG
I J
SIX MEN DISQUALIFIED YESTERDAY-PROSPECTS
POOR
FOR QUICK ACTION.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. ' 13.Six
men were disqualified as jurors, and
tne examination oi the seventh was
uncompleted and the prospect of se
curing 12 men to try Patrick Calhoun
upon bribery indictment waa discour
aging as far aa the present panel is
concerned when the second day of
the trial ended at usual hour of ad
journment this evening.
at the Indiana Steel Company'! plant.
For several weeks tests of the far
naces and the rolling mills have been
made and everything Is in readiuesa
for active operation. The big steel
was turned out without a mishap and
marks the entrance of Gary into the
world of steel manufacture. The co
pany will Immediately put three blast
furnaces In'o operation, while a fourth
Is being built, The completion of the
quadruple furnaces will enable the
company to employ about 500 addi
tional men.
.. GO TO 'EM CHIEF.
NEW YORK. Jan. 13.-Anarchist
and their methods and possibility of a
gigantic bomb plot were among the
important features of an address de
livered by Police Commissioner Bing
ham Ian evening, He said: ,
"There waa an attempt of the black
handers in thi town to make an al
liance with the anarchists of Paterson
N. J., one of them to make the bombs
the other to throw them and both to
divide the spoils .Nothing has hap
pened but there may yet be trouble
from that source." -
SYBIL
MSI
WRECK
OFFICIALS
INTERESTED.
i ; .- .
WASHINGTON, Jan, 13- Much
interest Is manifested , among pffclals
who follow closely the doings of the
Latin-American republics in the out
come ,he .first , Central,. .American
conference now holding sessions at
Tegucigalpa, Honduras. " This con-
SHOT AT THIEVES.
CHICAGO, Jan.13 -Revolver shots
were fired at three alleged freight
thieves early today by policemen who
had detected thenr stealing a large
amount of merchandise from a freight
car. Two of the men escaped, but the
third was captured. He gave the name
of Peter Donas and said he recently
came from Milwaukee, Wis. The po
lice believes that one of the thieves
who escaped, was shot ;
BILL STILL PENDING.
WASHINGTON, Jan! 13. - Practi
cally the whole session of the house
today , was devoted to the discussion
of an amendment to the District of
Columbia appropriation bill appropri
ating $10,000 for children's . play
grounds. The question, occasioned i
lively debate. Supporters of the pro
position prevailed arid the amendment
was adopted. . The .bill was still
pending when. the. Jiousejdjourned.
WILL BE TOTAL LOSS.
BUENOS, AYRES, Jan. 13.The
German steamer Wanguard, Tacoma
to St. Vincent, before reported ashore
at Punta Negotea is full of water and
will probably prove a total loss.
FINEST RAIL EVER.
CHICAGO, Jan. 13.-The first steel
rail has been turned out at Gray, Ind.,
WASHINGTON WILL
FIGHT GAMBLING
Two bills Presented to Senate to Wipe Out Pool
Room and Race Track
OLYM PI A; " Jani 13. Two '' bills
were presented to the Senate this
afternoon making the conducting of
poolrooms and racetrack gambling a
'elony, One is the measure advocated
by the King County, Anti-Racing
Track Gambling, League, The other
differs in that the landlords of gamb
ling places are not included In penal
ties act and possession of parapher
nalia ari not pria'in 'facie evidence ,oi
guilt. Other bills introduced provide
for submission of Initiatve and refer
endum amendment; appropriation of
$1300 for expenses of the attempt to
re-open the Columbia River boundary
case in the United ' States supreme
court and . fi bill amending the direct
primary law. ,'j ; '
, The bill also. provides for separate
non-partisan judiciary ' ballot which
will, permit, minority, parties to par,
tlcipate ,in the selection of the judic
iary from which they are now exclud
ed. The bill is designed to strengthen
the present law.
. POOL ROOM BUSTED.
NEW YORK, Jan. 13.-What is de
clared by the police to have been one
of the biggest pool rooms In the city
was broken into last night by an offi
cer of the Society for the prevention
of Crime, assisted by nearly 100 po
licemen. The place is In East USth
Street in a three story brick building
Nine men, who were said to be "sheet
writers" were placed under arrest.
Mistakes Depot Sights
for Point Arguello
2 FIREMEN DROWNED
Lumber Laden Vessel Strikes
on Rocks Near Surf
California
DISTRESS SIGNALS IN VAIN
Craft Carried Crew of Twenty-four,
All Are Rescued From Wreck
With Exception of the Two Who
Were Drowned. .
SHIVELEY NOMINATED.
IN'DIANAI'OLIS, Jan, 13. Form
er Congressman SJiiveley was nomi
nated tonight by democratic members
of the legislature to succeed Senator
Hemenway in the "United States
Senate. " "
THE MODEL WORLD.
CHICAGO, Jan. 13.-The. cloak
model may yet prove a lasting bene
fit to the human race. Through her
and the ready-made clothes she dis
plays woman may strike a standard
figure, according to Mrs. Beatrice F.
Howard in an address last night. In
ready-made clothes the maker, at
tempts to fit the average nearest to
the perfect figure," Mrs. Howard
said. "Persons who buw these ready
made garments,, which have been cut
to the shape of women of excellent
physique, try more and more to
adapt their figures to the clothes.
Eventually this will produce the well
shaped woman."
AFTER BRIDEGROOMS.
CHICAGO, Jan. 13.-H the Chica
go Dressmakers Club gets its own
way the' obtaining of a marriage li
cense will no longer be pleasure,
biit an ordeaL The bridegroom
will be forced to assure the license
clerk that he can pay all household
bills, and most important of all, the
dressmakers, before he is given the
coveted license, .'.',.. V
w . ..i
JURY HOLDS SWITCI1-
fJEM RESPONSIBLE
FOR WRECK ON THE GREAT
NORTHERN ON LAST
THURSDAY. '
BEL'UNGHAM, Wash.', JaV'iS.-
Coroners jury which sat , over the
bodies of Engineer Daley and Fire
man Stuart, killed in the wreck of the
Great Northern passenger 'train in
South .Bellingham Thursday, last,, this
evening brought in a verdict declar
ing the switch was left open and hold
ing the switch crew responsible for
the accident. ' This, in spite of the
fact that Forema ' William Sarlurid,
fact ' that1 foreman William Sarlurid,
David ,'Monoh'a.q 4 of switch crew
testified that the switch was not left
open, i Sarlund himself manipulated
the switch. The Great Northern de
tectives were riot called to testify at
the inquest, but it is known they still
hold the theory that the wreck was
deliberately planned., . ..
NEW HARVARD PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-Pres
ent Roosevelt, when informed today
that Professor Abbot ,L. Lowell had
been chosen, to succeed Dr. Elliot as
president of .Harvard, declared, "I'm
s pclased as Punch." He added that
it is great mark of America's appre
ciation of true scholarship.
TENNESEE PROHIBITION.
Bill Prohibiting Sale of Intoxicating
Liquors Passes Senate,
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 13.-A
bill prohibiting the sale of intoxicat
ing liquors in Tennessee passed the
lower house of the general assembly
tonight, It passed the Senate yester
day. Will now go to Governor Pat
terson who is expected to veto it, but
his veto only operates as a sugges
tion, not as a stay. Prohibition advo
cates declare the bill would be passed
over the governor's veto.
SURF, Cal., Jan. 13.-The steam
schooner Sybil Marston, Captain
Schillingsky commanding, which left
Gray's Harbor Thursday for Redondo
with 1,050,000 feet of lumber went
ashore about a mile south of Surf at
midnight Tuesday and is now a total
wreck. John McCarthy .and Dick
O'Neil, firemen, both of San Fran
cisco, were washed from the decks by
waves soon after the vessel struck
and were drowned. McCarthy's body
was recovered, and O'Neil's body is
buried in the wreckage which lines
the coast for almost a mile. The
wreck was caused by mistaking the
lights in the railroad depot at . Surf
for the lighthouse at Point Arguello.
The ship struck the rocks and stove
a large hole amidships. The schooner
carried a crew of 22 men besides the
captain and two mates, the crew was
unable to land last night because of
high water which washed the lumber
from the deck, but a line was run
from the shore to the wrecked craft
and the men were landed in safety.
The Sybil Marston first appeared
directly off Surf early last night, her
engines blowing signals of distress
and with, lights flashing for help. For.
hours she continued to drift towards
shore and down the coast, a fog
obscuring the lights and drowning the
sounds of the whistle. V ,
At daylight this morning the vessel
was seen about a mile southward ly
ing well in towards shore, the high
breakers beating over her. f After
wards the crew was observed making
their effort to reach shore. There are
practically no facilities here for aid
ing the then to reach shore, but the
residents of this sparsely settled vi
cinity gathered at the heath to do
everything possible. , ' v . , ' .
The Sybil Marston sailed from
Grays Harbor for San Pedro with 1,-
050.000 feet of lumber on January 8.
Captain Charles Schuiinsky was m
command, and she carried a crew of
24 men. She is owned by the Eschen
Lumber & Mining Company, of San
Francisco, and was built in 1907 at a
cost of $138,000. She has been engag
ed carrying: lumber to this port for
the Blinn Lumber Company and the
Southern California Lumber Co. for
several months. The vessel is 215
feet in length, 42 feet in breadth,, with
a depth of 16.5 feet. Her gross ton
nage is 1073. John Howalnd, of San
Francisco, is chief engineer. The crew
besides the captain 'and three mates
consists of three engineers, three fire
men, two oilers, three in the steward's
department and nine sailors.
The Sybil Marston was launched
from Boole's shipyards ' at Oakland
two years ago, and was christened by
Miss- Sybil Marston, of Berkeley,
daughter of Captain W. H. Marston,
one-third owner In the wrecked craft.
RESORT TO REFERENDUM
ALBANY, Jan. 13. Albany near-
beer saloons secured a writ of man-
damous today from Judge Galloway,
requiring the City Recorder to file a
petition calling for a referendum vote
on the City Council, prohibiting the
sate of near-beer. A hard fight in
court is probable. . .
The , minimum temperature last
night was U degrees above, and one
inch additional snow fell.
KILUIIG DFflIJf:iSWAS ALLCARE-
FULLY PIEEI
TUBERCULAR MILK SOLD.
CHICAGO,, Jan," 13 -Milk from
hundreds of cows condemned on ac
count of tubercular affections has
been sold in Chicago residence dis
tricts, imperilling the lives of thou
sands, according to members of the
State Pure Food Bureau, who' are
now waging a war upon tubercular
cattle. '.' .
The revelation came in Hammond,
Ind., where the inspectors of the
bureau have traced hundreds of cattle
condemned fa the lake county dis
trict! It was supposed that these
cattle had been slaughtered.
Declared Real Estate
t Talk AH Bogus
JURYMAN IS INJURED
SillE GILES AT
FT. STEVENS
BOARD OF OFFICERS APPOINT
ED TO SELECT COURSE OF
CABLES TO FT. CANBY.
F
ElllSIELTOI
LOST PROSPECTORS
BROTHER OF FRANK AND
WILLIE McLEOD IS SURE
OF IDENTIFICATION.
TELEGRAPH CREEK,' B. C,
Jan. 13. A party of prospectors from
Nahalni river, report the finding of
two skeletons, supposed to be those
of Frank and Willie McLeod, who
with" Robert Weir started from Fort
Simpson in the fall of 1904 and went
up the Nahalni prospecting. Among
the prospectors who found the skele
tons was Charlie McLeod, a brother
of the McLeod brothers, who is posi
tive in his identification of the skele
tons. Weir's body was not found.
The fact that the McLeod boys knew
the country well leads Charlie Mc
Leod to believe that the party was
murdered. N McLeod believes Indians
could clear up the mystery but he
found their stories very conflicting. -
STEVEHSOIiTOGOIiTEST
ELECT
FIERCE CONTEST ALSO IS EX
PECTED OVER HOPKINS'
SUCCESSOR
WAbiilKiiiUN, Jan. 13. To se
lect the course for the submarine
cable from ; Fort Stevens to Fort
Canby and for the consideration, of
such other artillery questions pertain
ing to fire control installation of army
district of the Columbia as may arise
in wnicn two or more depatmenta are
concerned, the board of officers con
sisting of Major George T. Bartlett,
Major James. Mclndoe , and Captain
W. M. Moore was appointed today.
CORTELYOU NOT IT.
NEW YORK, Jan. 13.-Reports
which have reached here from Wash
ington saying that George B. Cortel-
you, secretary of the treasury, was to
become president of the Consolidated
Gas Company are said to be without
woundation by officers of the com
pany in New York, frank A. Van
derlip, the well known banker and a
director of the company, said empha
tically:
"There has been no offer to Mr.
Cortelyou, so far as I know."
The Colsolidated Gas Cornpany has
been brought rather prominent before
the public of late by the decision of
the United States supreme court, sus
taining the validity of the 80-cent gas
law in this state. The management is
still undecided as to what course it
wiir pursue, particularly with refer
ence to us subsidiary companies as
to whether they will accept the court's
decision as applying to them.
The question of the distribution of
$9,000,000 overcharge to consumers,
a fund now held by a commissioner,
remains more or less in abeyance.
The presidency of the' company has
been vacant for some time'. ' ".
Cass of Thorion Mains Saved
From Hiis-Trial By Injured
Man's Pluck
HA1NS CUTLCDK 1$ SLACK
Events Crowd Fast in Hains' Trial
Yesterday Prosecutor Damn to
Conclude His Address to the Jury
Today.
FLUSHING,; Jan. 13. -Events
crowded fast today in the trial of
Thornton Hains. , When court ad-,
joured tonight, Juror Thomas Walsh,
injured tn a street car accident in New
York last night, was placed in the
care of a physician by Justice Crane,
that his. injuries might not cause
mis-trial of the case. Counsel for
defense concluded summing up this
afternoon and Prosecutor Darrin be
gan his address to the jury and will
conclude tomorrow. Only the pluck
of Walsh saved the case from mis
trial today. Battered almost beyond
recognition) by a fall from the street
lif-t-f- e .l . ....
car, vvuibn came irom tne nosptrai to
the court and sat through the day's
trial, though at times he appeared to
suffer greatly. Justice . Crane took
frequent recesses that the injured
juror might recover his strength.
Prosecutor Darrin, following the
closing address of Mclntyre for the
defense, but bitterly scored defense's
witnesses called to testify to the in-'
sanity of Captain Hains. Only once
did the prosecutor rise to an author
ical climax and was talking of the kill
ing of Annis. He declared in this
connection that when Captain Hains ;
learned Of his wife's counter charges
to his divorce suit, they" planned to
kill Annis and using meeting with
real estate men as a framework, they
hung 'the cloak of falsehood to con
ceal the crime There had to be, the (
prosecutor, declared, a defense for
both the defendant and the captain,
and it waa agreed that the captain
should plead insanity and that the de
fendant only went to buy real estate "
and tried to prevent his brother from' .
killing the publisher. The prosecutor
sarcastically said that the men carried
checkbooks and not revolvers when
they went to buy real estate. '
47 RECOVERED.
BLUEFIELD, Jan. .13. -Forty-seven
bodies have been taken from
the Lick Branch Mine, the scene of
yesterday's disastrous explosion.
SPRINGFIELD, Jan. ll-The
legislative deadlock ended today and
as a result Governor Deneen arid
other Republicans chosen for state
officers were declared fully elected
and trill be inaugurated next Mon-
day. The sehate members went into
the house and acted as spectators
while the election returns were be
ing canvassed. Notice was taken and
given of the contest filed by Adlaie
Stevenson, a democrat, defeated can
didate for governor. The contest
must be considered by a joint session
and Deneen men control the senate.
They insist they-will not attend such
t session. A fierce contest is feared
over the election of the successor to
Senator Hopkins. .
DISCUSSES POWER
OF THE SENATE
Bacon Declares Congress Has Authority to De
mand Information Wanted From Executive
DOWN TO 12 AT SEATTLE.
SEATTLE,. Jan. 13.-The ther
mometer registered 12 degree above
zero this morning, the minimum rec
ord this winter.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-Author-ity
of Congress to direct the heads of,
various executive departments to Send
to Senate or House information in
their possession was subject of an
extended speech in the Senate today
by Senator Bacon of Georgia. Bacon
took the broad view that Congress
had absolute power to demand from
the head 6f these departments any in
formation within their possession to
require them to give reason for their
action or non-action on any matter
coming before them. Senator Lodge
questioned the power of Congress
to demand papers on file in depart
ment ' matters' and insisted upon the
right of the "President in department
matters and insisted upon the right
of President to exercise discretion in
such matters. Senator Hale declared
he does not believe that the President
intended to state in his message that
he would not furnish documents and
information but merely declined to
permit cabinet officer to furnish rea
sons for the action taken. Senators
Fulton, Teller, Clap,' Money and oth
ers joined in the debate, all of them
upholding the power of the Senate in
the matter under consideration.