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A. PUBLISHES FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT COVERS THE MORNINO FIELD OM TUB LOWER C IA N . V . ' "" .. '.' "' ' T """""" leTftBii nurftftM THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 18. 1809 ' ' ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, PF.1CE FIVE CENTS CHICAGO HAS 111 WERI8 CASE III W HUB Woman Found Unconsious in Prominent Hotel , V. TIED TO BATH TUB Was Ones Arrested for Stealing Fifty Dollars Worth of Lace From Employer SUSPICION IT MAY BEEN PLOT Polk and Dtttctim Ar Working to Uortvtl tb Matter nd Claim Cirl't Story Dot Not Tally With Circumstance. CHICAGO. Feb. 17,-One ol the most mysterious ease with which the Chicago police have hid to deal In developed today in tba Wellington Hotel. tundard down town hoitelry when the unconscious form o( Mii " Cingle wa found lathed to the luppom of bathtub. Whether ihe wit the victim of the plot ibe Incohorrently alleged in her few conieloui momenti or choie meim Intending iuiclde to retaliate upon t woman whom ihe believed to be her enemy, formed myitery which the police have let about to lolve. When a chamber maid reached the home the bathroom on the fourth floor ihe found the door locked from the inide with a bolt. Later a house carpenter re moved the transom' and crawled into h. which was dimly lighted by a candle that wai burning nearly out. Upon the floor he found Mlia Clnglei clothed only in a nightgown, The bathtub wa half filed with bloody water and the link waa in the ..m. mnrtltion. On attempting to move her the carpenter found her handi tied '-with light binding cord and fattened to the legi at the head of the tub, The second cord wai ,irn tlohtlv about her kneei and held that portion of her body to the lower legi in Ihe tub, her lace mow ed cull and bruliei and It wai later determined that ihe had been mal treated. She wai alio apparently ufferlng from laudanum poisoning. A towel wai tied tightly under the glrl'i Jawi and wet cloth wai Huffed in'o mu,n' u., rlmhei. and even a little brown fur trimmed bat, were found l. rnme'r of the room. When re 1e. vera administered Mini r.Uotei recovered only sufficient!) i bubble hviterleally; ""Don't let her eom nearer; don't let her make me drink any more It will kill me,- ine "e.S" and "neoner" occurred In her talk. Later In the day at th hospital the recovered eoneloune fnr few m nutes. She low tne at tectlve who waa at her bedilde, iinniit tale of having been at tacked near her home last night by man and woman. One of them .truck her and the other threw pep oer In her evei, She wai then hustled Into a cab which apparently had beer, waiting. She knew no more ihe law un,tll ihe regained conidouineu at o'clock lat night In a itrange room Sha recognized the apartment ai be longing to the Wellington Hotel artu ..nn nnt in her friend. Mi- I Mary Joyce. She threw It over th: tramom ihe added with pem-i note asking "Some bell boy" to ma' it. The letter ran, "Mary will be killtd at the Wellington Hotel; e: quick. Ella." It wai thii note which waa lent put the police on her trail today. It reached Mill Joyce thii morning in the office where ihe wai employed at Monographer to H. H. Odonnell. attorney for Mist Ginglea. At the hotel the defective! found no person registered there as "Ella Clnglei." When her senseless form was found later the police were noti fied. No one law the woman enter the hotel and the night elevator man wai poiittve he did not take her up and no bell boy waa found who pick ed ud the tetteri. The manager of the hotel aaya the woman! story and postmarked letter Inconsistent. The postmark ihowi It wai recelv ed at the postoffice at 9 p. m. and must have been mailed in a box at the hotel not later than 7:30, an hour and a half refor the girl aayi the APPROPRIATION BILL PASSES WASHINGTON', D. C, Feb. 17 The naval bill carrying a total ap propriation of about $136,000,000 wai passed by the senate today after be ing under consideration for three days. The bill was changed by the restoration of the house provision for two battleshipi of 26,000 tons dis placement to cost $6,000,000 each. An IneiTectua attemot wai made to de feat the'amendment for restoring the marine corps to battleshipi and miner! which wai placed in the measure while the icnate wai pro ceeding In committee of the whole. SUPERVISOR COFFEY IS CONVICTED OF GRAFT' WRY FINDS HIM GUILTY OF GRAFTINO 14000 WHli-K. SUPERVISOR. MESSAGE SEI1T BY PRESIDENT Refuting 'Attacks Hade on Panama Canal LOCK CANAL IS BEST Only Criticism of Work Is Too Much Caution Has Been tx ercised In Construction PROVIDING AGAINST TROUBLE THROUGH FREIGHT SERVICE. North Bank Line Begin Through Eautern Shipments. PASCO, Wash., Feb. 17-The first through freiitht trams between Cheyenne and Pasco are now arriv ing and departing on regular service on the North Bank will be establish ed within the next week. Local offic ials announce that through passenger trains between Spokane and fort- land will be in service by March Z, and that the roadbed will be in con dition to permit the trains to run on schedule time. It la the general be lief that the time between the two cities will be reduced to U hours. Reports to the effect that all trains will go through Pasco without change come from an unreliable source and it is the opinion ol road men that Pasco will remain a divis ion oolnt for both roads. The amount of freight tonnage over the S-, P. & S. it increasing daily and will prob Mv result in the removal of one of the switch engines now employed in the night service in the Northern Pacific yards. f Continued on page 6) LOCAL OPTION BILL FAILS TO PASS SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 17.- Former Supervisor M- W. Coffey, ac cused of accepting a bribe of $4000 to vote for a trolley franchise lor the United Railroads, waa found guilty today. The case went to the jury at 11:34 this forenoon. It re ported back almost at once. Arguments having been completed late yesterday afternoon, the jury was charged by Judge Dunne upon the opening of court today. He cau tioned the jurors not to be guided in their deliberations by newspaper rennrts or testimony given under an Immunity contract. A conviction cannot be had on the testimony ot an accompuce, unless it ir corrobo rated by other evidence, said tne twine, but a mutual agreement maoe with the District Attorney might be considered. All testimony given un der the Immunity contract, however, should be thoroughly investigated. The fact that the defendant had not testified in his own behalf should not be considered in arriving t a verdict. If the jurors found that Coffey had received a bribe of from either James L. Gallagher, Abraham Ruef or Tirey L. Ford, thev ahould bring In a verdict ot guilty. If they found that Gallagher or any other witness waa an accom nlice in the alleged crime, the test! mony of such witness should not be taken into consideration. . Three ballots were taken by the iurv. two of which stood 11 for con victlon and one for acquittal. On the third ballot all voted "guilty." Super ior Judge Dunne fixed Saturday, February 27, as the date for pro nouncing sentence, which, under the penal code may be from one to four teen years in the state penitentiary. bars and near the cash registers large placards warning the man on the water wagon to not become a backslider, not to buy the whisky, which is only on sale, he says, "to make money for me, and I really do not need your money, so you had better keep it." ; c:..r Wha Made Report Be tween Lock and Sea-Level Type ol Canal Are Beat Men of Their Pro fession in 'or out of United States. Washington Senate Has Long Struggle With Many Dramatic Settings and End is Not Yet OLYMPIA, Feb. 17,-Maintalning one of the most persistent deadlocks ever witnessed in the Washington legislature, opponents and friends of Falconer, McMaster or the Anti Saloor League locn4 .oion bill par .tf Vft,C(l m ncai-ly acoro of roK calls on amendments today earh of which was defeated by tie vote of 21 to 21. The bill on final passage in identi cal form in which It was Introduced Into the icnate, was defeated late this afternoon by a vote of 22 to 20. One of the members, Rosenhatipt of Spo kane, who supported the amendments refused to vote for it because the amendments had not carried. Every amendment proposed came from tr.nAt nf the bill who were willing to make concessions in order to se cure Its adoption. Opposition is pledged to the support of the Nichols Wit wWrh will be taken up and nn tomorrow. It is planned to amend that bill so that all cities which are excluded from local ?ption u i, Wnms separate units. It'll claimed that thus amended the Nichols bill can be passed. WILL OPEN APRIL 12. CHICAGO. Feb. 17--The season of tbc American baseball league will open April 12, according to the orig inal schedule made public today. CONVICTED OF MURDER. SEIiSAIIUCIDEIITS TUCKER TRIAL Friends , of Falconer-McMaster'a bill offered concessions which were about the same as unit proposed. by Nichols bill when it is amended. But opponents of the Falconer-Mc Master bill would not accept it un der any circumstances because It was draft by the Anti-Saloon League and an "Attempt has been made to force it down the throat of the Legisla ture." During the discussion, Stev- enion of Garfield declared that ev ery senator who opposed the bill was digging his political grave. Allen of King and Ruth of Thurston re sented the remarks and Allen decid ed he would not vote for it If he was the only man in the senate opposing it. General debate on the bill occur red late this afternoon with the house members crowding the floor and hundreds of spectators in the gallery. Many visitors were turned awnv. Ruth in a sneech on the bill contended that the bill provided fori prohibition . and not local option. CotteriH of King supported the bill. He closed with a peroration that moved some of his fellow senators to tears. COLONEL IS GREATLY MOVED BY INGRATITUDE OF HIS SON. CHICAGO, Feb. 17. Dramatic in cidents followed in rapid succession in the hearinu before the army re tiring board today of the case of Colonel W. F. Tucker, former pay master of the Department of the Lakes who seeks to be honorably re tired. As a climax, when the hear ing was concluded, Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker, wife of the colonel, filed sui for separate maintenance on grounds of intemperance. Arrayed against him were his wife, his mother-hv law, Mrs. John A. Logan, and hi son, who seek to have him retired without compensation. Of what hei testimony consisted of was not dis closed as the session waa secret, buf she bad not been long on the stand when it was reported in the corn dors that she had fainted. Colonel Tucker was greatly moved by what tnok nlace. especially at the appar ant Ingratitude of his son, Captain Tucker, with whom the colonel stat ed he had shared the little he htfl when on half pay. WASHINGTON! D. C, Feb. 17 Anv attack made hereafter on the lock type of the Panama Canal, ac cording to the opinion expressed by President Roosewsll in a message transmitting to Congress today the reoort made by the engineers who re cently visited tthe canal tone with' President-elect Taft, "Is m reality merely an attack upon the policy of building any canal at all." The re port, in Mr. Roosevelt's opinion, shows in clearest fashion that the Congress was wise in the position it took and that.it would be inexcusa ble folly to change from the proposed lock canal to a sea-level canal. "I commend to you," he says to Congress, "the most careful consid eration of the report. They show that the only criticism that can be made ot the work on the itshmus is that there has sometimes been an almost ces of caution in providing against possible trouble. As to the Gatun dam itself they show that not only is th, Aum safe, but that on the whole the plan already adopted would make it unnecessarily high and strong ana rrnrdinorlv they recommend that the height be reduced by ZD feet, which change in the plans I have ac- .n.inntu Hireptrd." wiu.kb'J -- f President Roosevelt says that the engineers who made the report, "Are of all the men in their protession within or without the United States, the men who are on the whole best n.,iifie to pass upon these very questions, which they examined." The engineers report tnat as me r.at,,n earth dam was the central nnint nf discussion they gave it un r , . . der instructions from Mr. latt, first .nn.iHeration in the light of all evi dence," and they add that tne type f Atm now under consideration is one which meets with our unanimous approval." ; They say they are "Satisfied that there will be no dangerous or oDjec tionable seepage through the mater ials under the base of the dam; nor sre they so soft as to be liable to be pushed aside by the weight of the nrnnned dam so as to cause danger ous settlement. We ar also satis fied that the material available and which it is proposed to use are suit able and can readily be placed to form a tight, stable and permanent dam. rinms and locks, lock gates and all other engineering structures involved in the lock canal project are "feasible and safe," according to the engi neers, "And they can be depended up on to perform with certainty their respective functions." They report that "They do not nna any occasion for exchanging the type nf the canal that has been adopted. A ehancre to a sea-level plan at the present time would add greatly to the cost and time of construction, without compensating advantages, either in capacity of the canal or (Continued on page 6) I'JJ it lEiie era on: HOUSE AI SEI 1 ATE UUT ISSUED FOR MIES? OF PIMM PULBISHERS OF NEW YORK WORLD MUST ANSWER IN THE FEDERAL COURT. Second Time House Re bels Against Senate BAD FAITH IS SHOWN Senata Refuses to Entertain Any Bi!Is Passed by Kous3 AI-J ter 3 O'clock Tuesday PERCONCURBENT RESOLUTION SEATTLE. Feb. 17.-lohn Bozo- vich one of three Servians who shot and killed Marshal Harry Miller at Kent last April, was convicted ol manslaughter with recommendation from the jury of mercy. Bozovtch, unlike his companions, showed that he was unarmed- One Of bis com panions is under sentence of death and the other has been sentenced to life imprisonment .. ' FLEET NEARS HOME. OM BOARD FLAGSHIP CON NECTICUT, Feb. 17-Position of the Atlantic fleet at 8 o'clock tonight: latitude 34:27 north, longitude 57 -S7 west 962 miles east of Cape Henry. Weather good; fleeting proceeding in formation of line squadron. WATER WAGON f.0W BUSY I SPOKANE EFFECT OF "BILLY" SUNDAY'S REVIVAL HAS HAD EFFECT IN THE SALOONS. SPOKANE, Feb. 17.-The effect of the recent evangelistic meetings held here by "Billy" Sunday and his corps of workers has surprised even the most optimistic of the church workers in this city, and they all auree that "the devil and his coherts have been dealt a body blow, tvery nna ftf trie rhll rrhes has Drained in membership, in many of the organi zations hundreds having come in to swell the membership rolls. But this is not the greatest result thus far chronicled. One of the local brew cries has acknowledged that the out- nut of the institution has been de creased considerably, and saloonmen and bartenders all over the city speak of a noticeable decrease in the amount of liquor consumed, the number of men quitting the use of strong drink being placed at many hundreds, while those who are taper ing off gradually being in numbers still greater. The saloon forces have received a body blow from which they will not soon recover, and they are alarmed as to the result in the City of Spokane, should the local option bill pass in the Legislature at Olympia, fearing that Spokane would be swept dry from end to end if the matter is ever put up to the voters for a decision. A prominent local liquor dealer, who is said to have been present at every meeting held by Rev. W. A. Sunday here for the six weeks during which the evangelistic services con tinued, has displayed back of his WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 17- Bench warrant were issued today for the arrest of Joseph Pulitzer, Caleb M. Vanhamm and Robert H- Lyman of New York, proprietors nd editors of the New York World j r, n.unn Smith and C R. aJU ti Williams, owners of the Indianapolis News, for criminal libel m connec tion with the publication of charges of irreeularities in the purchase by the tlnited States of the . Panama r.nat- Indictment were returned todav bv the federal grand jury sit tins in this city. Copies of the bench warrants and certified copies of the indictments were placed m the hands of the United State mar shal here and he will proceed in ac cordance with the directions of Dis trict Attorney Baker. Thedore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Elhi Root, J. Pierpont Morgan, Charles P. Taft, Douglas Robinson and W. Nelson Cromwell are named in the indictment as person villi fied. Copies of the indictment were served on the Press Publishing Com pany, publishers of the New York World, by service on vuo v,ar michaeU its local representative. Certified copies will be filed with the United States Commissioner Shields in New York who will issue warrants for the arrest of the defend ants of that city and who will be brought before him to show cause why they should not be extradited to this jurisdiction for trial. In the event that the commissioner decides in favor of extraditing them, they may appeal to the federal courts for writs of habeas corpus. These could be carried to the United State Su preme Court, and if the defendants pursue the course outlined above, it will probably be a year before they can be brought here for trial. Resolution Proposing Constitutional Amendment Pernuttaig the btaw to Engage fa Railroad Building Haa Poor Show. STATEHOUSE, Salem, Or, Feb. 17. For the second time this session the bouse and senate are at logger heads and for the second time the house is in rebellion against the sen ate. Concurrent resolution passed by both houses declared that neither house should send any bills to other body after 3 o'clock Tuesday. Yes terday afternoon the senate obeyed the resolution to the letter, the house while figuratively obeying, actually kept a flood of bills pouring into the senate until midnight This was ac complished through polite fiction of stopping the hands of the house clock at 2:55 p. m. Today the senate refused to entertain any bills receiv ed after three o'clock and the house notified the upper chamber that no senate bills would be considered un til the senate backed down from its stand and agreed to accept all bills sent to it up to midnight Tuesday. A move in the way of compromise l pending in the senate. This is a mo tion to entertain bills received up to 11:30 last night. Four minor meas ures passed the senate today. Un less the senate recedes from its stand it has only half a dozen house hills which have passed third read ing and ten or so house bills in com mittee to dispose of before Saturday when the legislature has agreed to adjourn. The house resolution pro posing constitutional amendment permitting the state to engage in (Continued from page 6) LIVELY TIME IN NA TIONAL CONGRESS Attempt Made to Abolish Capilat Punishment and Regulate Interstate Shipment of Liquors WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 17. Attempt to abolish .capital punish ment as a penalty under the federal law was today blocked in considera tion of the penal code bill in the house sitting in committee of the whole. The .most important amend ment incorporated in the bill was one to regulate interstate shipments of intoxicating liquors. Representa tive McCall led the fight against cap ital punishment and when he was voted down made a point of no quorum. Just before this, by a vote of 27 to 25, the committee had de clined to substitute electrocution for hanging as the death punishment. A motion to take a recess was op posed by enemies of the bill and filibuster ensued. The door were finally closed and the sergeant at arms was sent after absent members. Nearly two hours later at 7:50 p. m. when Representative Madden an swered to roll call, a quorum was se cured and the house declared a re cess until tomorrow at 11 o'clock. Amendment to the penal code bill remilatintr the shipment of liquors was brought up by Humphreys. This amendment which is known bill that passed the senate forbids transportation of liquors in interstate commerce unless it is consigned to bona fide consignees and unless the narkaire is labelled plainly with the names of consignee and' the exact character of the contents shown. This amendment prohibits shipment o'f liquor C. O. D. Speaker Cannon took his place on the floor and voted every time with the temperance force.