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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1909)
Q1 . .1 m PUBLISHES FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT COVERS THE MORNING FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA 86th YEAR. NO. 46. ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1803 PE!CE FIVE CENTS WET $4,200100 SLIM APPROPRIATED t , 1 Oregon Legislature Adjourns Sine Die Ust Night After Its Forty Days Session PASSED GOOD AND BAD LAWS Wm the Mom Expensive Legialature Ever Held In Oregon and the Tax payers Will Haw Chance to Ap- predate it During Next Two Yeen STATEHOUSft, Salem, Or., Feb. 2fW The Leiilslature adjourned sine die tonight, the clock having been atopped at 1:53 o'clock this afternoon to permit action on a lot of appro priation! and miscellaneous bille. The session wst notable for the amount of it alleged scandal talk which developed, but which reulted In nothing more serious than im proved accusations, and for an extra ordinary amount earrled by appro priation blllj, aggregating J4.2O0.OO0.. Among the notble meatirei passed was the bill providing for the sterili ration of the rrimlnal inane; the Bean bill taxing public service corpo ration on their capltaliied net earn ing, which is expected to add at leat $25,000,000 to the assessable property of the State and to bring In a revenue In exceia of $250,000 yearly; an Insurance bill which taxei life Insurance companies $100 and fire Inmrance companies $150 an nually and which alio taxei fire and Insurance premium! 21 per cent. A fUh bttl governing fishing In the Columbia river was also passed, after a Joint committee from the Oregon and Washington legislatures had agreed upon Its terms. NEW ARIZONA LAWS. niOENIX. A., Feb. 20.-The lo cal option bill which passed the Houe several days ago, wat passed by the Council yesterday. The bill provides for local option by a major ity, instead of the two-thirds vote as heretofore. The bill creating a railroad com mission passed the House unanimous ly, The bill provides for doing by a commission in an organized way what private persons could do be fore bringing complaints to the at tention of the Interstate commission, as under a territorial government the government the Interstate Commerce Commission can only pass on rates. A bill granting women's suffrage was Introduced in the council. That It DO NOT FLOURISH IN KLAMATH Blind Pigs Are Given Noland of the KLAMATH FALLS, Or, Feb. 20, Herders of blind pigs have conclud ed that Klamath Falls is no longer a suitable pasture for their illegal stock. All of them have promised Circuit Judge Noland that they would retire from the field, but they thought there was no hurry about doing it. The judge threatened to call another grand jury to inquire into the exact status of the places thnt are reputed to be selling nothing stronger than 1 per cent. This brought forth the cry, "We'll be good." Practically all of the men under in dictment pleaded guilty to selling liquor in violation of the local option law and Judge Noland imposed fines ranging from $200 to $500. In every Instance he informed the offending will pas that House it indicated by a test vote, K The ami-gambling bill designed to cover every technical aperture In the existing law, eliminating all man ner of club gambling, is now before the governor for his signature THE DIVORCE MILL. Soma Swdft Samples Of Judicial Ex ' peditlon In New York. NEW YORK, Feb. 20. All With in the aoace of five hours thirty two absolute divorces were granted by Justice Thomas in Brooklyn yester day. The record case was disposed of In three minutes, This breaks all Brooklyn divorce records. The dis patch in which the legal machinery moved is attributable to the fact that none of the cases was defended. CHINESE WON CONTEST. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 20.-A. L. Tan, a Chinese student of the Univer sity of Southern California, academy won the snnual Interscholastic ora torical contest held at the polytech nic high school last night, defeating representatives of Occidental Acad emy, Los Angeles High School and the Polytechnic High School. His topic was "China's Call For Service," and the theme was treated in an instrucive and interesing mari ner. Tan has Only been in this country two years. He is a very bright stu dent and speak English fluently. A gold medal was awarded the winner, and the oratory banner was transfer red to U. S. C, from Ocidental which was the winner last year. FOOL AND HIS MONEY. NEW YORK. Feb. 20.-Through an investigation in the Essex markrt police court it has been disclosed that a band of swindlers have been victimising ignorant men and women on the East Side by means of a mys terious machine which they asserted would increase money if placed there in. Joseph Rosenthal, a tailor, com plained that he had placed $800 in the machine at the instance of Benjamin Bloom, a fellow tailor, and that after waiting feverishly for twenty (our hours as directed, bad opened the contrivance to find hat it contained only worthless paper. Bloom was held in $2000 bail for trial. Henry Lampkln of Brooklyn that he had lost $750 in the same manner and Inquiry by the police showed that an Italian had In vested $7000 in the money breeder and had received not a cent in re turn. BELIEVES OWN STORY. CHICAGO, Feb. 20.-That Ella Gingles who was found bound to a bathtub in the Wellington Hotel, Wednesday, believes her own story is the belief of Chief of Detectives O'Brien after an extended interview with the girl. Short Shift by Judge Circuit Court party that in the event of a second offense he will consider it incum bent on him to impose the maximum punishment, which is both fine and imprisonment in the county jail. " Several of the parties who have been conducting dives have closed their doors; others have sold out their places, while those who are still doing business at the old stand are selling nothing stronger than 1 per cent. It is said by those who are in a position to know that the present is the only time in the history of tfiis city when a drink of liquor could not be purchased over a bar. Should the present conditions be continued, prohibition will be given a fair trial in a comparatively new country and at the next election an ' intelligent vote can be taken on the question. " SCORE OF IIS LOST I WRECK South American Steamer Catch es Fire and Founders With Urge Number, Aboard BUT 350 PEOPLE RESCUED First Reports Were That Over 200 Lives Were Lost, But Later De tails Received Showed That Cata strophe Was Not so Serious. BUENOS AYRES, Feb. 20--The Argentine steamer "President Boca", from Southern ports, according to reports received here, was wrecked between Puerto de San Antonio and Puerto Madra on the cast coast. The steamer caught fire and it is believed the crew and 200 passengers perish ed. It is reported also that the steamer sank. Press dispatches state the flames are spreading with great rapidity and the steamer was headed toward the shore as rapidly as pos sible. Panic prevailed and many lives were lost, some estimates reaching as high as 2000. A later official report says the vessel sank, but only 20 lives were lost. Three hundred and fifty passengers and the crew were saved according to these advices . STOCK MARKET TAXES BIS SLUMP O'l STEEL ANNOUNCEMENT OF DECIS ION TO CUT PRICES WAS CAUSE OF DECLINE. NEW YORK, Feb. 20.-The an nouncement of a decision to cut steel prices, made late yesterday by Chair man E. H. Gary, of the United States Steel Corporation's board of direc tors, was reflected In the stock market today. Offerings of 12,000 shares of United States Steel com mon stock at from 471 to 471, against 431 at yesterday's close, was the fea ture of the opening United States Steel preferred declined a full point. The general market was lower in sympathy, with here and there a few fractional gains. During the second hour another drive was made against United States Steel common, forcing the price down to 461. The stock was heavily dealt in and much of it was appar ently at forced sale. U. S. Steel pre ferred and the sinking fund 5 per cent bonds were also affected as was the entire active lists of stocks. The market continued feverish and heavy to the close. United States Steel common was hammered down to 46, a net loss, of 21 points from last night, and the preferred drop ped the same. Colorado Fuel & Iron declined 6 points. Elsewhere In the list of active issue prices fell from 2 points to substantial fractions. The only notable exception was Louis ville & Nashville, which gained 1 point. COLLEGE PRESIDENT DIES. WORCHESTER, Mass,, Feb. 20. Carroll D, Wright, president of Clark College, died tonight. NO MORE APPOINTMENTS. WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 20 President Roosevelt today announc ed that he would not make any more appointments during his term of office. GOES TO GRAND CANYON, i'OUGHKEEPSIE,: N. V., Feb. 10. John Burrows, 'the eminent nat uralist and author leaves here for the West today to fulfill, at 72 years of age, his lifelong desire to see the grand canyon of the Colorado. He will spend a day in Chicago and then go direct to the petrified forest where John Muir, the noted western explor er and discoverer of the Muir glacier is awaiting him. Together they will travel through the canyon, geologiz ing, and observing. Thence they will go through to California, which Mr. Burroughs has never visited and will tour the state from the Oregon to the Mexican lines, spending several weeks there. "MIKE" IS DEAD. Famous Fire Dog Gives Up The Ghost In New York. NEW YORK, Feb. 20.Mike, the Baritone, probably the most widely known and best loved dog ev er attached to the fire department in this city, is dead. He was run over and killed by a fire truck while going to a fire last night. The truck came through Fiftieth Street. When Mike running ahead, reached Second Ave nue, he turned around to see which way the truck would turn. He slip ped on the wet pavement and before the driver could pull his horses to one side Mike was crushed. He will be buried with ceremony. Mike was a big Dalmatian and made the rounds of nearly every fire house in Man hattan and the Bronx. TALKS BY PHONOGRAPHS. NEW YORK, Feb. 20.-Speeches by phonographs was one of the fea tures of the Amherst alumni at the Waldorf Astoria last night. Though this medium the gathering was ad dressed by Dean Hitchcock of the faculty, who is also the senior pro fessor; by Representative Rainey of Illinois and Judge Samuel Sears ,of Chicago. The speeches did not come very smoothly from the records but the gist of what was said, could be made out and the college men en joyed the stunt immensely. AS OLD AS ALIACIABADES. But Modern Divine Claims The Ori gin Of A Story. C..ICAGO. Feb. 20-The Rev. D. C. Marquis of the McCormick Theo logical Seminary claims the author ship of one of the most popular of the Abraham Lincoln stories that about cutting off the dog's tail by in ches to see if the animal could stand it. "Dr. Steens, one of the participants in the Hampton Roads conference told me that President Lincoln relat ed an entirely different story there and then I told the story of the man who had a sick dog and made bis ne gro cut off his tail," said Dr. Mar quis. "The negro I remember, thought so much of the dog that he cut off the tail a piece at a time to see if he dog could withstand the shock. The next night I happened to attend a meeting and Dr. Steens told my story as having originated with Lincoln and Lincoln always re ceived credit for it after that." CASTRO IS ADJUDGED DDI AID OUT FEDERAL COURT DECLARES HIM CONSTITUTIONALLY SUSPENDED. 1 CARACAS, Feb. 20. Castro has lost the title of President of Vene zuela, the high federal court having rendered a decision that sufficient evidence had been presented in the suit brought against him on the charge of attempting to bring about the assassination of Juan Vincente Gomez, the acting president. The decision declares Castro is constitu tionally suspended from the office of President. ' OREGOII TO DEI mis Construction of Harriman Lines Will be Rapidly Pushed in the Northwest $82,000,000 WILL BE SPENT Railroad Construction Work to be Begun Where Stopped at the Tim of the Panic in 1907 in Order to Forestall Hill Enterprises. CHICAGO, Feb. 20.-The Tribune tomorrow will say that a large part of the proceedings of the issue of $82,000,000 of 20-year convertible bonds which the directors of the Southern Pacific Company on. last Friday announced bad been author ized is be devoted to the resumption of Harriman activity in railroad construction in the Northwest, par ticularly in Oregon. Several import ant lines in Oregon had been sur veyed and well under construction in 1907 before the financial panic that year put a stop to them. Hill has recently pushed several lines . into what was formerly regarded as Har riman territory and Harriman evi dently proposes to spike down the rails over routes already laid out before any other developments may hinder him. Harriman evidently proposes to forestall all such compe tition as might result from the action of the Oregon Legislature on Friday in passing the constitutional amend ment providing that the State con struct railroads. The recent rapid strides made in Oregon in irrigation and reclamation projects have stimu lated railroad activity there. FLEET'S Llfi JOURNEY EI1DS 1 (SAY WILL PASS IN REVIEW BE FORE PRESIDENT AT THE EXACT HOUR INDICATED. FORTRESS MONROE, Feb. 20. When the saluting guns on the forward bridge of the armored cruis er North Carolina boomed 13 times today in honor of the blue flag of Rear-Admiral Sperry on the battle ship Connecticut the combined forces are to enter the Virginia Capes on Monday morning to be reviewed by the President in celebration of the world cruise of the 16 American bat tleships were completed- Wireless signals from the North Carolina and her junior consort the Montana, early today told of the approach of the last two ships sent to welcome the home-coming vessels . to the . mam body of the fleet. The wireless sta tion at Norfolk navyyard could not pick up the fleet direct either last night or today an account of static interference in the atmosphere, but messages from the North Carolina contained sufficient evidence that the fleet is near enough to the Virginia Cape9 tonight to insure their arrival off the entrance at Hampton Roads sometime tomorrow. The ffeet will lay to or mancuvre oq the Capes to morrow afternoon and evening and will get under way Monday morning in time to pass into home waters and begin filing by the Mayflower exactly at the hour indicated. STEVENSON ILL. CHICAGO, Feb. 20.-Adlaie Stev enson, former vice-president of the United States, is ill at his home in Bloomington, 111., according to re ports received here today. BURIED FOREST FOUND. NEW YORK, Feb. 20,-Army en gineers who are boring for an addi tional water supply on the Sandy Hook military reservation have dis covered what is believed to be a bur ied prehistoric forest on the New Jersey coast A broad strata of wood was struck by test pipes 400 feet down. Twenty feet of this wood was bored through and an investiga tion is being made in the interest of archaeology. POLICE POWER RULES. CHICAGO, Feb. 20-Much satis faction is felt by the police theatre squad over a decision banded down by the state Supreme Court uphold ing the right of the city to exercise police power in censoring immora' pictures. ' ' While the police department has been going ahead on the presumption that they had the right to say what sort of pictures should be shown a? the 5 and 10-cent theatres as well a: a the larger houses, and also have been suppressing the sale of inde cent picture postal cards, the decis ion of the court will materially help in the crusade. DiCKIIil IS SELECTED SECRETARY flFHAR OTHER MEMBERS ARE ALSO SELECTED FOR PLACES IN TAFTS CABINET. COLUMBUS, O, Feb. 20.-J. M. Dickinson of Tennessee will be sec retary of war of Tafrs cabinet. Charles Nagel of St- Louis, secretary of commerce and labor, and R. A Ballinger of Seattle, secretary of the interior. This statement is not made upon the announcement of Taft. but its correctness may be accepted without question. Taft will permit no an nouncements to come from his as to these conclusions. Dickinson came to Cincinnati from Chicago today and was in consultation with Taft. He is personally and most favorably known to Taft for many years. His eminent legal record and acknowl edged ability should commend him peculiarly to Taft. Dickinson is a Tenttesseean but his duties as gen eral solicitor of the Iillinois Central Railroad obliged him to reside tempo rarily at Chicago. He is Democrat, although he has always opposed Bryan. President-Elect Taft left Cincin nati today for New York. His .train was greeted at many points along the road by large crowds. He will arrive at Philadelphia in the morning and deliver an address Monday at the Pennsylvania University and leaver for New York Tuesday. GASOLINE DOES j GREAT DAMAGE! Explosion Blows Employer Through Front of Build j ing and Fatally Injures Him PORTLAND, Feb. 20.-In an ex plosion of a gasoline tank at the Model Dye Works, 632 Union ave nue, at 11 o'clock this morning, A. J. Guthrie, an employe, was blown out through the front of the building to the street and received injuries from which he will probably die. He was rushed to the hospital. Just how the gasoline in the tank became ignited will perhaps never be known. The only person 1n the building at the time was Guthrie, who was cleaning a suit of clothes for a customer. ' While bending over his work there was a terrific explosion which was heard for many blocks in either di rection. The entire part of the building facing the street collapsed PRESEDEriT TO BE CEiBED Sub-ccmmittje of the Conrr.ittos on Judiciary flakes a ; Hot Report SAYS EXCEEDED AUTHORITY Had no Right to Instruct Attorney General Not to Interfere in the Merger of the United States Steel Corporation. WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 20. By a vote of three to two the sub committee of the committee on judic iary which has been investigating the merger of the Tennessee Coal, Iron & United States Steel Corporation, today decided to report to a full committee that the President was not authorized to permit the absorption. The committee also found that the President was equally unauthorized to direct the attorney-general not to interfere with the merger and not to enforce the federal statutes against it. It was decided also that as both companies were engaged in inter state commerce the absorption was in violation of the Sherman anti trust law. It was found that the ef fect and purpose of the absorption monopolized the iron ore supply of the country and generally to elimi nate the Tennessee company as com petitors of the United States Steel Corporation. The fact that such a report was to be made created con sternation in the Senate. It was real ized that if a full committee sub scribed to the findings of a sub-committee the effect would be to admin ister the severest of rebukes to President Roosevelt and practically to direct the attorney-general to bring proceedings against the steel corporation under the Sherman law. DO IT PEACEABLY. OAKLAND, Feb. 20. It is not il legal for a labor union to picket a place' of busines that has been de clared "unfair," if the picketing is done in a peaceable manner, according to the decision of Judge Ellsworth given here, in the case of Joseph Da vis, a local restaurant man against the Cooks & Waiters Alliance. Be cause the union posted two pickets in front .of his place of business the restaurant man declared that he had suffered a loss of $250. The court ad mitted the loss but contended" inas much as the union had not brought about "By unlawful means, damages could not be imposed." to the sidewalk. Through this apef j ture the unfortunate employe was; hurled headlong. Aside from the; burns he sustained about the heat and face he was badly bruised. In a comparatively short time tin' entire building, which was a fram structure, was wrapped in flames I : burned like tinder, and the firemen who were quickly on the scene could do nothing toward saving it or any of the contents. Their effort were then confined wholly to savin: the adjoining-building. The fire wa kept from spreading and the hhr which destroyed the place in whit the , accident occurred, soon die down until there was no further dat ger of doing fcmy additional dam age.