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86th YEAR. NO. 46.
ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1803
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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.